How Joe Rogan, Barron Trump, and podcasts led Gen Z’s cultural revolution



Trump's entry into politics nearly a decade ago, marked by his rallying cry of “fake news,” ignited the decline of mainstream media’s credibility. His relentless attacks struck a chord with those fed up with media bias. With support from his base, Trump started building the mainstream media’s coffin. Today, Gen Z, Barron Trump’s generation, is driving in the final nails. They don’t want to listen to Joy Reid (who does?) or Jake Tapper (again, who does?); they want Joe Rogan.

Gen Z speaks for most of America.

The polarization deepens as many left-leaning women refuse to date right-leaning men. Meanwhile, more men are aligning with conservative values, rediscovering religion, and questioning the modern feminist agenda.

Trump’s interview with Rogan has racked up 48 million views on YouTube alone. Meanwhile, Theo Von has drawn 14 million views for his own interview with Trump. The impact of these and other podcasts is clear and convincing. These alternative media giants have amplified political messages in a way that mainstream outlets simply can’t match.

Gen Z values podcasts for their convenience, easy access, and variety. Gen X values the personalities and independence of the hosts. The medium's personal touch forged a cross-generational coalition that was decisive in Trump’s sweeping victory.

Barron Trump undoubtedly played a pivotal role in helping his father secure re-election. He opened his father's eyes to the massive influence of voices like Rogan and Von. As a Gen Zer, Barron belongs to a generation often criticized, sometimes fairly, sometimes not. While they might not always be grounded in reality, they are tuned into podcasts — earning them the nickname the "podcast generation." This group is deeply embedded in audio culture, leading the shift from traditional media to various digital platforms, with nearly seven hours of media consumption each day. Yes, each day.

And Gen Xer stars like Joe Rogan have capitalized on this shift, drawing in young audiences with unscripted, long-form conversations on everything from politics and culture to aliens and sports. His genuine approach builds trust and shapes opinions, holding real power over how young listeners absorb information and view the world. It highlights the influence of podcasts in shaping modern thinking, where a single compelling voice can steer conversations, impact millions, and even sway election outcomes.

Due to podcasters’ revolutionary impact on politics, the belief has spread that a related but much different corner of the new media world — the so-called “manosphere” — was key to Trump's re-election. The manosphere is an online ecosystem shaped by figures like Andrew Tate and the "Fresh and Fit Podcast," which focuses on dating, relationships, and gender dynamics, often from a controversial angle. Thanks to largely left-leaning media, both Tate and the "Fresh and Fit Podcast" hosts have become synonymous with the often-misapplied term "misogyny." This term is slippery, as the left has weaponized it to label anyone who dares to challenge modern feminist narratives — narratives that often assert men are literally trash and celebrate female promiscuity.

To paraphrase Ben Shapiro, many of the voices in the manosphere space are like “terrible doctors.” They are adept at diagnosing the disease but terrible at prescribing the cure. Yet, their appeal persists. The same factors that fuel Rogan and Von’s success — mainstream media’s implosion and a thirst for authenticity — are propelling the rise of the manosphere. You might not agree with what Tate says, but he undeniably knows how to sell a message. Is he genuine? Again, he’s certainly skilled at selling the image of authenticity.

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The appeal of the manosphere space is amplified by what’s known as the diploma divide, where men and women increasingly pursue separate paths shaped by diverging priorities and growing disillusionments. More women are choosing careers over families and focusing on climbing the corporate ladder instead of dating. Trump’s election win has prompted some young American women to discuss boycotting men altogether.

This notion echoes South Korea’s 4B movement, which champions rejecting dating (biyeonae), sexual relationships (bisekseu), marriage (bihon), and childbirth (bichulsan). Interest in this movement spiked after the election, with platforms like TikTok and X flooded by hashtags and conversations embracing the concept. Here in the U.S., the list of boycotted behaviors is, at least judging by some TikToks, rapidly expanding, to include churchgoing and “trad” lifestyle signifiers increasingly favored by younger men.

Slapping the manosphere label — a term often used to imply an online cesspool of bigotry and misogyny — onto figures like Rogan and Von is not only misleading but downright wrong. These men are known more for irreverent humor, eclectic interviews, and thought-provoking conversations than chauvinism. The assumption that their audiences consist solely of men is profoundly disconnected from reality. Joe Rogan’s podcast, in fact, boasts one of the largest followings among female listeners in the United States. Von also has a significant female audience.

Similarly, and no coincidence, over four in 10 female voters chose Trump, with a majority of white women casting their ballots for him. This statistic alone shatters the caricature of the "bad orange man" as universally reviled by women. One might even say it’s surprising more women didn’t vote for Trump, given the superficiality of Kamala Harris’ campaign — full of empty platitudes and performative joy.

The polarization deepens as many left-leaning women refuse to date right-leaning men. Meanwhile, more men are aligning with conservative values, rediscovering religion, and questioning the modern feminist agenda. On the other side, women are increasingly stepping away from religious affiliations. This realignment is creating a cultural chasm, marked by friction and factionalism that extends far beyond political affiliations and reaches into the most personal aspects of life — marriage, family, and community.

The manosphere didn’t necessarily help get Trump elected. The Gen Z and Gen X podcast bros leading alternative media did. Now, debates over reproductive rights, gender roles, and shifting expectations for men and women at work and home are only set to intensify — unless the broad MAGA coalition of younger men and women step up to lead their fellow Americans away from a deeply destructive war of the sexes.

Riley Gaines drops never-before-heard details on trans teammate; tells Joe Rogan ALL



Joe Rogan is no stranger to platforming some of the most interesting and controversial voices on his podcast, and his episode with Riley Gaines is no different.

Gaines tells Rogan about her experiences sharing swim competitions with two trans identifying individuals — one a biological woman and one a biological man.

“We were told we fully had to treat this person as a woman, right?” Gaines says of trans woman Lia Thomas. “The same national championships we had another athlete who was transitioning, but this athlete is a female who was then self-identifying as a man from Yale.”

“Top eight women in the entire country, and you’ve got a 6'4” man in a women’s swimsuit with the bulge next to a woman wearing only a Speedo with nothing covering her top,” Gaines adds.

“I’m sitting there watching this, I’m thinking to myself, 'It’s me, I’m the crazy one, it must be. This is the freaking Twilight Zone,'” she says.

Gaines then shares the story that forced her to be honest about how she felt with Thomas on her team.

Thomas swam the 500 freestyle, won a national title, and beat out American Olympic record holders by “body lengths,” Gaines explains.

“Even the time he went last year would have beat every girl in the country this past season by nearly two full seconds, making him the first man to win a division one NCAA women’s title,” she says, jokingly calling him a “trailblazer.”

However, Gaines was able to tie Thomas in the 200 freestyle — but because they only had one trophy, they gave it to Thomas instead of her.

“I asked the question that no one dared ask all season, and I said, ‘Why?’” Gaines recalls. “He realized that he didn’t have a justification, he didn’t have an answer for this, and so I actually appreciate his honesty.”

“His face changed, he looked sad, his voice changed. I could tell he didn’t even believe what he was about to say, but this official looked at me and said, ‘Riley, I am so sorry, but we have been advised as an organization that when photos are being taken, it’s crucial that the trophy is in Lia’s hands,’” she explains.

Dave Rubin is impressed with Rogan’s strong guest.

“Little-known podcaster Joe Rogan, well, I think this guy is going to make it,” he comments.


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WATCH: Joe Rogan has HAD IT with racism against whites



The radical left has expanded the definition of racism to include just about anything under the sun, but none of its so-called protections against “hate speech” apply to white people, apparently.

This double standard is not lost on Joe Rogan.

On a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan told author James Lindsay that “there's plenty of people that have said crazy things about white people lately that you're allowed to say.”

“When you say that a group of people is either bad or that a group of people is responsible for everything ... you allow 'othering,'” he continued, adding that othering “is the number one problem we have tribally [and] culturally.”

Lindsay agreed, explaining that “identity politics” is “contagious” and “only creates more of itself.”

“It only makes people more racist,” said Rogan. “We should just treat everyone as individuals.”

Lindsay agreed, adding that treating people as individuals applies to more than just race.

“Same thing with sexism — you don't know what that woman is capable of. Let her try; it doesn't mean you change the standards,” he said.

“This is the pattern that has been exploited, and this is where the double standards came from.” When society agreed that we shouldn’t “exclude people” because “racism sucks, homophobia sucks, sexism sucks ... they say, ‘Well, you're not accommodating us,’” which results in “[lowering] the standard,” Lindsay explained.

“An inch or two at a time,” and suddenly “you're a mile down the road, and you're like, 'How did I get here?'”

To hear the full conversation, watch the clip below.


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Riley Gaines Makes Joe Rogan Go Quiet with Never-Before-Told Details of Lia Thomas

Riley Gaines Makes Joe Rogan Go Quiet with Never-Before-Told Details of Lia Thomas

WATCH: Riley Gaines shares never-before-told details about Lia Thomas with Joe Rogan



Just last week, Riley Gaines joined Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” to discuss the intimate details of her time competing against trans swimmer Lia Thomas.

At the National Championship, “we were told we fully had to treat this person as a woman,” said Gaines.

But most people already knew that.

What they might not know is who else was competing in the same tournament.

“We had another athlete who was transitioning, but this athlete is a female who was then self-identifying as a man ... and we were told we fully had to treat this person as a man,” she explained.

Of the “top eight women in the entire country, you've got a 6’ 4" man in a women's swimsuit with the bulge next to a woman wearing only a speedo with nothing covering her top.”

“This is the freakin’ twilight zone,” Gaines told Rogan, who looked horrified.

Playing along with gender politics only lasted for so long, though.

The day after Thomas “swam the 500 freestyle and won a national title, beating out Olympians ... [and] American record-holders ... by body lengths,” Gaines had to compete against him in the 200 freestyle.

“We get on the blocks, dive off, swim eight laps of freestyle, touch the ball at the end. I look up at the scoreboard, and almost impossibly enough, Joe, we had gone the exact same time, meaning, of course, we had tied,” said Gaines. “You can’t tell me that’s not divine intervention.”

However, when the two went to the award podium, something utterly incomprehensible happened.

“The official looks at both of us and says, ‘Great job you two, but you tied and we only have one trophy, so we're gonna give the trophy to Lia,'" Gaines said, as a look that can only be described as flabbergasted spread over Rogan’s face.

Gaines’ first words upon hearing this were, “Isn't this everything that Title 9 was passed to prevent from happening?”

But, of course, the presenter didn’t have an answer — not a legitimate one anyway.

“We’re actually just doing this in chronological order,” was his first excuse.

Not his smoothest answer, as “G comes before T,” Gaines said, which she pointed out to the man.

“Finally, he realized that he didn't have a justification ... This official looked at me and said, ‘Riley, I am so sorry, but we have been advised as an organization that when photos are being taken, it's crucial that the trophy is in Lia’s hands ... Lia takes the trophy home,”’ but “‘we can eventually mail you one.”’

To hear more, watch the clip below.


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'You can't have woke comedy.  It sucks.' Joe Rogan says stand-up comedy is the 'last line of defense' against wokeism.



Joe Rogan said that "woke comedy" is impossible and criticized elites in an interview on his podcast with actor and director Taylor Sheridan, the creator of "Yellowstone."

Sheridan was lambasting political correctness when Rogan launched into a brief criticism of woke comedy.

"We say, you know, in the comedy world, we say we're the last line of defense, because this is where the woke meets the wall. The woke meets the wall with stand-up comedy," said Rogan.

"You can't have woke comedy. It sucks. It's impossible. You can't, like, always punch up and cater to everybody. It's like no, that's not what's funny. What's funny is the f***in' weird things that people do and all of our hypocrisies, and all of our contradictions, all the chaos of being a human being," he added.

"And if you want to never make fun of marginalized groups or never make fun of protected classes or never make fun of anybody that's downtrodden or disassociated or disaffected, you can't do that!" Rogan continued.

"That's not stand-up comedy!" he emphasized. "Stand-up comedy has to be everything. It has to be everything that's funny, regardless of whether or not it's socially acceptable to make fun of those things."

Sheridan had his own tirade that started against the movie "Forrest Gump," which he saw as simplistic.

“This tottering f***ing idiot is the only guy to save the world? Everybody else around him, he’s just gonna go on a f***ing run across America, and everyone's gonna follow him, and that’s gonna heal the country?" said Sheridan.

"I was just like, ‘What is this s***?'” he added.

Rogan's podcast is one of the most popular on the planet, but he has been targeted by many on the left over comments he's made contradicting political correctness and the woke agenda. A lot of the furor has been aimed at his pushback against the transgender movement.

Here's part of the interview with Sheridan:

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Joe Rogan, Green Beret Tim Kennedy tackle schools grooming kids, Israel-Hamas war, and warn terror attack in US is imminent



Joe Rogan interviewed Green Beret Tim Kennedy on a wide variety of subjects, including schools grooming kids, the Israel-Hamas war, U.S. southern border crisis, and warned that a possible terror attack on U.S. soil is imminent.

On Wednesday's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the prolific podcaster welcomed Tim Kennedy – a decorated Master Sergeant with the U.S. Army Green Berets, a Special Forces sniper, former UFC fighter, and co-founder of the Save Our Allies organization that has rescued Americans from dire circumstances around the globe.

Kennedy recently traveled to Israel to rescue American citizens stranded due to the ongoing war with Hamas.

Kennedy claimed that Russia and China want the U.S. citizenry to be fighting in the debate over siding with Israel and Hamas in an effort to stoke divisions.

Regarding the praise of Hamas terrorists as "freedom fighters," Kennedy shot back that they are "barbaric murderers and absolute terrorists that want nothing besides the genocide."

Kennedy warned that Americans are "gonna have a rough year" because we are "woefully unprepared" for a possible terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Kennedy warned that an attack could likely stem from terrorists crossing into the country through the U.S. southern border.

Kennedy told Rogan, "In light of what just happened in Israel, where they flew paragliders over borders, over walls, crashed through walls, and then they were able to kill 1,400 people in one day, and you look at that was 1,000 insurgents total."

"And then you look at the number of people that have been coming over the border for the past three years that we know are radicalized, that we know are on watch lists," Kennedy said. "It should scare you to death, the position that we're at. We're going to have a real bad year."

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Speaking of the Israel-Hamas war, Kennedy said that if all the Hamas terrorists laid down their weapons that nothing would happen.

However, Kennedy noted that if Israel laid down their weapons that Hamas would "kill everyone single one – it's what they do, it's what they've sworn to do, that's their motto, that's the origin of their existence."

Kennedy stated that there would be Middle East peace if there was no Hamas.

Kennedy stressed that he was not "conflating Palestinians with the terrorists."

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Kennedy described the humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border because of the massive flow of illegal immigrants.

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The two men then discussed how young students are being groomed with inappropriate materials in school.

Rogan began, "It's so bizarre to me that a rejection of teaching like overt sexuality to young kids is somehow or another dismissed as anti-gay or anti-LBGTQ. It's so strange because you could never imagine heterosexual sex being discussed to 5-year-olds and 6-year-olds."

"But somehow or another it's okay if you're discussing gay sex," Rogan continued. "Like it's very strange."

Kennedy chimed in, "It's not strange. It's wrong. It's it's it's dangerous. It's a grooming behavior. If you're trying to if you're trying to broach any sexual topic with a child that is not of age to have sex – that is grooming. That is the definition of grooming right and grooming itself."

"You talk to my 8-year-old about anything sexual – hetero, homo, anything, it's wildly inappropriate," Kennedy said, adding that any type of behavior like that is "indoctrination."

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On the topic of mass shootings, Rogan and Kennedy brought up the use of psychoactive drugs by mass shooters.

Rogan noted reports of the "prevalence of psychoactive drugs, the prevalence of psychiatric medications amongst school shooters, amongst mass shooters, that it is f**ing off the charts."

Rogan said the media attempts to "bury" the mass shootings by "using gang violence."

"There's a giant difference between gang violence mass shootings, which occur all the time, which is also something that no one's trying to fix, and then the actual people that strap themselves up and go into places where people are unarmed and just slaughter people," Rogan stated.

Rogan claimed that mass shooters are almost all of them are on "something," whether it be SSRIs or "some sort of anti-anxiety medication."

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You can watch the entire "Joe Rogan Experience" interview with Tim Kennedy below.

Joe Rogan reveals how California teacher attempted to indoctrinate his 5-year-old daughter into 'woke, guilt-ridden ideology'



Joe Rogan revealed how a California teacher attempted to indoctrinate his 5-year-old daughter into a "woke, guilt-ridden ideology" on a recent episode of his popular podcast.

Rogan began by saying that there are "good schools" in the Austin area where he now lives, but noted that California is "much more problematic" when it comes to education.

"They hired some person to teach them that they have to be antiracists and it's not good enough not to be racist," Rogan began his rant.

"My kids aren't racist at all," he said on a recent "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. "What are you doing? Like, why are you putting that into their head? That they have to be antiracist and call out racism."

Rogan declared that the teacher was "trying to make them be activists."

"Hey, they're five. They don't even care. They want friends. They don't give a f*** what their friends look like," he said. "They are trying to have a good time. They're five. They're just playing."

"You're indoctrinating them into this woke, guilt-ridden ideology that you're carrying around with you, and you feel like you have an obligation to impose this on children," Rogan stated.

The prolific podcaster proposed that instead of being antiracist, we should strive to be a "color-blind society."

"The Martin Luther King notion that we should treat people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin," he added.

Rogan conceded that there are "inequities in communities," and "some people are in places that have no hope."

"None of the real problems get addressed, none of that gets fixed, none of that gets worked on, and instead, they just try to make kids feel guilty," he said.

"I didn't like the woke s**t," Rogan declared. "I didn't like that they were trying to ask kids their pronouns."

In 2020, Rogan moved his family from California to Austin, Texas. He cited overpopulation in Los Angeles and having more freedom in Austin as the reason for the move.

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Joe Rogan laughs so hard he CAN’T BREATHE after hearing Kamala Harris described like THIS



Comedian, actor, and fellow podcaster Tim Dillon recently joined Joe Rogan on "The Joe Rogan Experience" to discuss the 2024 presidential election, and let’s just say their conversation ended in tears — the good kind of tears.

Dillon personally thinks there’s no way Joe Biden will be running, especially given that Gavin Newsom reportedly plans to run.

“How do you think they get Kamala Harris to step down?” Rogan asks.

“Kamala Harris cannot say a sentence. ... She talks in, like, gypsy curses,” responds Dillon.

Rogan’s roaring laughter quickly fills the studio.

“When they ask her something, she’ll be like, ‘My grandma said that a hive of bees is still bees if you bury it,'" Dillon continues as Rogan howls.

“The woman has no idea what’s going on,” says Dillon.


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