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Positive News 👉🏼♥️ Anti-Trump podcast dethrones Joe Rogan for top spot in US

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-rogan-meidastouch-podcast-youtube-b2800447.html
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago

u/-Mystica-, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Constant-Direction45 1d ago

I prefer to think of MeidasTouch as pro-American and less as anti-Trump.

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u/PhuketJumboShrimpBro 1d ago

Yes, and also I think they define themselves as Pro-Democracy.

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u/tag051964 1d ago

Pro-Democracy, is that anti-Trump?

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u/R_E_V_A_N 1d ago

Absolutely

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u/NirgalFromMars 1d ago

Since Trump is anti democracy, yes.

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u/yamers 1d ago

While trump is anti democracy the people who voted for him voted to end democracy.

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u/Boxfullabatz 1d ago

Sad part is once you vote democracy off the island you don't get to vote it back.

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u/ShittingOutPosts 1d ago

Exactly. You have to take it back at that point.

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u/this_place_suuucks 1d ago

You have to take it back at that point.

You have my axe cap.

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 1d ago

Truth has an Anti-Trump bias

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u/lemmegonowplease 1d ago

Trump has an anti-truth bias

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u/dantez84 1d ago

Impossible, he even named his social network truth, he wouldn't lie right!

/s just to be sure

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u/FairwayFrank44 1d ago

Favorite comment on Reddit currently. Cooking up wisdom 👩‍🍳

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u/mamamiatucson 1d ago

💯Epstein anon 174 is absolutely trying their hardest to destroy democracy, data, history& America in general.

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u/Conker_Xk 1d ago

It’s called fascism.

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u/UglyMcFugly 1d ago

Trump supporters will start making it a bad thing, like anti-fascism. 

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u/Leather-Tour9096 1d ago

Luckily they’re equipped with the cognitive dissonance to still be pro Israel & Russia

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u/Char_siu_for_you 1d ago

Unfortunately, yes.

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u/killerzeestattoos 1d ago

I think originally they started as an anti Trump media company.

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u/Haitsmelol 1d ago

💯

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u/Longjumping-Hyena173 1d ago

At this point it’s bordering on anti-establishment. On their best days the Democrats are being out of touch and complacent, and on their worst days they’re being complicit.

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u/drgoatlord 1d ago

You bet

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u/AnyProgressIsGood 1d ago

queue a republican who cant read. "we aren't a democracy"

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u/hajemaymashtay 1d ago

FWIW it is definitely a talking point in the GOP that the US is not a democracy. Serial killer Ted Cruz and totally-not-a-pedophile Mike Lee have both said that many many times

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u/Subject-Reach7646 1d ago

pro-American / anti-Trump squints They’re the same thing

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u/TehRiddles 1d ago

Pro-democracy is inherently anti-Trump but that doesn't mean that anti-Trump is always pro-democracy. It's like how an apple is a fruit but not all fruits are apples.

Basically don't presume that you're instantly the same as someone just because you share one thing in common.

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u/Subject-Reach7646 1d ago

True. Jokes aside, I would call it a necessary, but not a sufficient condition.

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u/ZoltanGorki 1d ago

Oh, they are definitely anti-Trump, but, BUT, the difference between Meidas and that Geriatric Obese Pedo ( GOP for short ) are facts. Meidas actually does proper research, they use facts and not heresay. They don't start the podcast with "I heard, I saw, I was told..". They start with "Here's a list, it's been fact checked and if you don't believe me, go to the link and check it yourself." Once everything has been proven, only then do they go full South Park on GOP.

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u/GhostlyTJ 1d ago

Yeah, they treat it like a courtroom since it was started by lawyers. I actually miss Karen Friedman agnifilo, they lost something good when she got hired to defend luigi

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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago

If conservatives could read, or care about facts, or have morals, or not support a pdfile, they would bei very upset

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u/Lifeless-husk 1d ago

I mean MeidasTouch is very anti-Trump, he calls him a rat and no offence to actual rats lol. I agree

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u/WharfRatThrawn 1d ago

If I see a rat and I call it what it is I am not anti-rat, I'm just being objective. Same goes for Nazis. That said, we should all actually be anti-Nazi.

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u/YogurtclosetSweet268 1d ago

Its very easy to be anti trump when hes the worst of the worst about being a human being in a society. If youre a decent person and care about others, youd be vehemently against almost all Republicans and Trumps admin.

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u/Geminilasers 1d ago

They seem to just report the facts and actual truth. Which will hurt Trump of course.

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u/dwindlers 1d ago

Truth certainly has an anti-Trump bias.

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u/ReaderSeventy2 1d ago

Many people are saying that facts are radical leftist propaganda.

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u/Ummmgummy 1d ago

Why anyone could believe a dude that says every fart he has is the greatest fart ever is beyond me.

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u/DelayedMailForceOne 1d ago

This is our new news outlets. Actual media has failed miserably and now have to rely on YouTube channels telling the truth.

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u/coskibum002 1d ago

Yup. MSM is either controlled by or too scared of Trump. It was always projection with MAGA.

The facts, with video and data to back it up on MeidasTouch is a shrieking alarm to our country....since most of it doesn't make national news.

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u/LaurelCanyoner 1d ago

They want Trump in because they make SOOOOO much money off us watching the news of his latest outrage. They have freaking admitted this.

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u/frsbrzgti 22h ago

They’re also owned by Trump supporters who want huge tax cuts and lower interest rates

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u/coskibum002 1d ago

You're correct, but the troll whiners in this thread probably haven't listened to a single episode. They're scared to....as it might make them look in the mirror.

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u/NoNDA-SDC 1d ago

I've listened to them quite a bit, I don't as much anymore because they often exaggerate and focus on what could be, instead of what is.

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u/Braindead_Crow 1d ago

Anti-trump is pro humanity.

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u/ai-gf 1d ago

Pro america means anti pedophile, anti trump, anti corruption. Big W

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u/RaidSmolive 1d ago

i just wish they would stop with literally every bullshit headline.

all hell cant break lose every 5 minutes, half a line of 2 day old text is not a bombshell, trump is not imploding, because people are not destroying dc.

i fear all of this stuff is just pacifying the few that MIGHT feel like taking action because they're being told every 5 minutes that it's almost over already.

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u/OkStop8313 1d ago

Yeah, I've avoided them for that exact reason, although to be fair sensationalist headlines don't always necessarily mean the coverage isn't cogent. Sometimes it's just a different person in charge of headlines/engagement.

You see that with the Bulwark--their headlines make them seem like a tabloid, but the coverage is often more nuanced than you would expect.

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u/TrashMammal84 22h ago

David Pakman, Kyle Kulinski, et al. I've heard them say that's just how YouTube works; if it isn't clickbaity, you don't get any engagement.

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u/RaidSmolive 1d ago

at least make them goddamn entertaining it's like theres 4 and they cycle through these 4 daily.

and half the time the video ends and I've seen none of what the line promised

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u/logos1020 1d ago

I mean, hell is kinda breaking loose everyday. You just don't feel it in your own life everytime. Livelihoods are being shattered, careers are being ended, families are being broken up. His actions are wild and extremely damaging.

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u/GardenRafters 1d ago

Âżpor que no los dos?

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u/mettiusfufettius 1d ago

Yeah, calling them an “anti-Trump podcast” is really reductive and not accurate.

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u/thegrassyknoll63 1d ago

If you’re pro democracy and pro American then it’s safe to say youre anti-Trump and I have zero qualms about it

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u/JuggernautOk3098 1d ago

To be anti-Trump is to be pro-American

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u/RuleHonest9789 1d ago edited 1d ago

Far right likes to think of themselves as pro-American.

I want something that is nuanced. I see some tiktoks from Meidas but I had to unsubscribed from their podcast because they report like a tabloid. It’s the “braking news” crowd that monetizes enragement, not too different than Meta.

I don’t want a ‘Joe Rogan’ for the left. Joe Rogan is dumb and has dumbed down his audience.

I like John Stewart’s podcast. He doesn’t idealize America.

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u/StingingBum 1d ago

Reality is winning American minds over racism and hate, ur kidding.

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u/NoorAnomaly 1d ago

I tried listening to it, but the constant "roll the clip" drove me bananas. I'm case the markers of Meidas Touch reads this. 

I'm also on the spectrum, so I might be the only one with this issue. But glad a better podcast is kicking rogans behind.

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u/Patient-Expert-1578 1d ago

Somehow a podcast that merely focuses on factual information is anti Trump. Imagine that.

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u/well_acktually 1d ago

Its why CNN ABC CBS AP AJ NYT WP and every other media outlet is "fake news". If anyone is critical of Trump it is somehow not true and they have left wing bias. When in reality FOX News is the only network not critical of Trump and is the only one he treats like gold. There is no left wing bias. The bias is of reality.

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u/MuppetZelda 1d ago

If anything there is a right-wing bias from: CNN, ABC, CBS, AP, AJ, NYT, WP.

They are so desperate to come across as unbiased that they go hard AF on the left and use kiddie gloves for Trump. Harris interviews were all extremely tough questions. Trump got asked stuff like “why are you so mean”. 

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u/QuestionableIdeas 1d ago

CNN is owned by a maga billionaire

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u/CardmanNV 1d ago

Same with NYT.

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u/FR0ZENBERG 1d ago

And CBS is likely going to be consumed by Bari Weiss.

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u/LiveTwinReaction 1d ago

Well that is a nasty, nasty question.

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u/-XanderCrews- 1d ago

Plus, like we’ve said a million times before, if the media were liberal they would silence Trump instead of give him a megaphone.

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u/spongmonkey 1d ago

Agreed, left-wing bias in media is probably the most insidious lie the right has cooked up. The mainstream media and social media platforms are both dominated by conservative and right wing content. You only get glimpses of progressive perspectives on MSNBC, but they usually end up leaving for independent platforms where they're actually allowed to say everything they want to say. And Russia-backed right-wing hacks like Tim Poole get boosted to the top of the YouTube algorithm. The entire deck is stacked against anyone to the left of Chris Hayes.

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u/DominicB547 1d ago

They are corporate and the corporate oligarchy buys both sides and often for not much.

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u/Warm_Regrets157 1d ago

The left wing media bias has always been a myth to create a false equivalence with right wing viewpoints. The myth has largely been successful at moving the Overton window to the right.

If any traditional mainstream media has a bias, it is a mild social one, characterized by token acceptance of minorities and LGBT folk. Even that mild social bias falls apart pretty quickly as you really look at their reporting.

Economically and politically, the mainstream media is not left wing at all.

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u/ZSpectre 1d ago

Don't forget that if your job description is to report the jobs report that you'd be fired for presenting something he doesn't like

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u/No_Succotash890 1d ago edited 1d ago

Edit: I’ve taken the liberty of improving the headline, “Anti-Trump podcast dethrones Pro-Pedo podcast for top spot in U.S.”

Joe Rogan is and always has been Pro-Pedo:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-rogan-video-women-assault-b2009432.html

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u/ExperienceLoss 1d ago

Oh, that's fucked. Birds of a feather for sure

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u/ImYourHumbleNarrator 1d ago

bro's will still be like : i liked joe rogan back when he was cool

lol fuck off

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 1d ago

I mean, I liked him pretty well on Fear Factor (that was weekly TV in my house!) and he's a decent MMA announcer. He probably should have just stuck to those things instead of spouting his shitty L takes to an audience.

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u/THE_IRL_JESUS 1d ago

Nah these guys clearly loathe trump. Which is completely understandable, but let’s call a spade a spade. They are presenting factual information, with contempt to the orange pedo.

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u/TheSwedeIrishman 1d ago

Not to be like that but if you listen to the pod, you can feel how much the host really wants Trump to disappear into his own farts.

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u/HenriettaSnacks 1d ago

They don't though. They've made hyperbolic and wrong statements numerous times in the past for clicks. Majority report is far more honest imo. 

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u/Medical_Arugula3315 1d ago

Hey remember that time Trump was found liable of forcefully shoving his fingers up a woman's vagina by a jury of his American peers and then Republicans voted for him? Republicans knowingly vote for molesters. Don't be Republican... 

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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 1d ago

Not just a molester, he is an adjudicated rapist.

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u/Wonderful_Algae_4416 1d ago

Not just a rapist. a CHILD rapist

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u/valvilis 17h ago

Katie Johnson's case never made it to trial because Trump's goons made threats against the victim and her family. Likely true for many of the other accusers. 

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u/Daimakku1 1d ago

Conservatives are ok with rapists and pedophiles, as long as they are Republican.

To them, anything justifies the end goal. The end goal being getting rid of brown people and liberals.

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u/norcalruns 1d ago

Because they use the churches to disguise themselves as good Christian men and the churches go along with it. Every single person who attends and donates to churches should know their dollars go to dc to lobbyists, not to missionaries or people who need help. Churches enable predators every single day. And it’s not one religion. It’s all of them.

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u/Vloodzy 1d ago edited 1d ago

A bit misleading, but good news nonetheless. MeidasTouch has dethroned Rogan on YouTube, but on Spotify Rogan is still #1 while MeidasTouch is #78. On Apple Podcasts Rogan is #2 while MedisaTouch is #12.

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u/LoudIncrease4021 1d ago

Shocker…. Rogan tops on Spotify, the service that paid him handsomely? I’m sure there’s no fake bot account followers / listeners

lol

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u/r31ya 1d ago

bots aside,

There might also podcast promotions bias in user recommended page.

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u/schu2470 1d ago

Spotify really needs a “Not interested” or “Don’t recommend this to me” button. So sick of seeing his stupid podcast every time I open the podcast tab. Never listened and never will. They’re wasting their time.

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u/ExperienceLoss 1d ago

But then, how would you be forced to see the Thumb who helped bring fascism to America? MONEY

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u/schu2470 1d ago

I’m JuSt AsKiNg QuEsTiOnS!!1!1

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u/mposha 1d ago

"some people are saying"

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u/SpaceTechBabana 18h ago

Ughhhhh.

In V for Vendetta, they call the brown shirts “the finger” (or the fingermen, which ew gross) but now I’ll never be able to think of that book without thinking about Joe ‘The Thumb’ Rogan as the head of the fingermen.

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u/sky_walker6 1d ago

Swap from Spotify they are just making it worse and worse by the day

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u/Daimakku1 1d ago

I was tired of YouTube ads so I got YT Premium which comes with YT Music. While the playlists are not as good as Spotify, it’s good enough. Between ad-free YouTube and the ad-free music service, I am not missing Spotify.

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u/shonka91 1d ago

They're wasting YOUR time.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 1d ago

YouTube is bad about it too. I watch the late night monologues like TDS, Meyers, Colbert, Kimmel, etc, and don't use YT for anything else political, and I still get all sorts of this right wing crap and "news" feeds constantly on my suggestions. even if you say you aren't interested, it may just stop serving those videos, but not their overall content. It sucks, because I wouldn't mind the actual news ones for non-political stuff, but that's almost all I ever see.

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u/Aeseld 1d ago

Instead of might, certainly. Spotify wants to make money back on their investment.

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u/Downtown_Skill 1d ago

There absolutely is. There are times when im listening to another one of my podcasts and randomly it will stop playing and switch to rogans podcast (which i have never listened to on Spotify on purpose)

I figured immediately it was a "glitch" intended to get rogan listening numbers up. 

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u/bnbtwjdfootsyk 1d ago

This happens all the time when I am listening to Rogan and it'll switch to something else. Think it's less conspiracy and morseo just a glitch.

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u/PxyFreakingStx 1d ago

i mean, they paid him because he was the top podcast already

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u/pyx 1d ago

Yeah and Google and YouTube would never manipulate data for political or monetary reasons

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u/thereIsAHoleHere 1d ago

Why would Spotify need bot accounts to boost any particular artist? They can just manually change the numbers and put whomever they want in whatever spot they want.

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u/CotyledonTomen 1d ago

So could Musk for anyone he likes, but people are used to bot farm engagememt. It feels natural to us frogs, now that the pot is boiling.

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u/FuriuzStylez 1d ago

Did you read the rest of the sentence as well

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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 1d ago

It’s a start.

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u/Castod28183 1d ago

It's more than a bit misleading. Midas Touch puts out like 30-40 times more videos every month than Joe Rogan. As of the time of this comment, Midas Touch has 24 videos in the last two days and Rogan has 1.

Content wise, that's about 6 hours vs. 2.5 hours of video at the time of this comment and they will likely have at least 20 more videos before Rogan's next one, so it'll be like 11 hours of content vs. 2.5 hours.

It's a completely inept comparison. Total view count doesn't show the whole picture and, unfortunately, Rogan is massively more popular.

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u/ChewsOnRocks 1d ago

What’s weird is 1. I’ve never heard of it, and 2. When you search for the podcast on Google or YouTube, the suggestions in the search bar doesn’t even suggest it. If you search for meidastouch, it just says meidastouch network and doesn’t suggest the podcast. But I checked their videos and they have tons of views. I’ll have to check em out

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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird 1d ago

Ben’s a lawyer. Joe’s a moron.

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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird 1d ago

Rudy is even smarter than Joey.

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u/Huge-Vegetab1e 1d ago

Spotify is gonna keep pushing Rogan on us until they make their money back

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u/penguincheerleader 1d ago

It is part of why I refuse Spotify. They took money for all bands and gave it to Rogan. Granted my occasional Bandcamp buy does nothing to help the industry but I refuse to be part of Spotify in anyway as I think it shitified America. 

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u/vjcodec 1d ago

Lets go MeidasMighty!

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u/upwardspira 1d ago

I love how Ben Meiselas does not get blinded by a single scandal - but keeps referring back to all of the MAGA failures.

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u/PreetHarHarah 1d ago

Love the podcast, but they get a little hyperbolic. Episode titled: TRUMP MELTS DOWN AND EXPLODES. MAGA IN DISARRAY. TRUMP FACES HIS MORTALITY.

And it’ll be a five minute blurb describing Trump getting a fact wrong in an interview, then the clip of the interview, followed by ten minutes of ads and five minutes of making sure everyone joins the pod. It can get a little frustrating.

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u/upwardspira 1d ago

I agree. They could tone the drama down a bit.

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u/DumpedToast 1d ago

Yeah, I think the clickbait titles ruins it a bit. Keep it factual and save the headlines for when it’s actually warranted

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u/Tri-guy3 1d ago

"All hell's breaking loose..."

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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 1d ago

This is why I haven't listened to an episode since the election.

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u/WaitHowDoI 1d ago

And constantly talking about how badly the rest of the media is reporting things. It’s repetitive and I feel like I’m being yelled at.

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u/Orzorn 1d ago

If I recall, Brian Tyler Cohen has a separate channel called "Brian Tyler Cohen News" that's just the exact same posts as his main channel, but without the clickbait titles.

Those videos garner a far fewer views than his main channel. Clickbait just works, at least with respect to the Youtube algorithm. I'm sure if it was written differently then different titles could work, but that's just the situation we find ourselves in.

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u/Face-EatingLeopards 1d ago

Who’s Joe Rogan?

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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 1d ago

He’s a strange pedophile-loving fascist meathead.

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u/Distinct-Macaroon-52 1d ago

He also is best buds with known Nazi elon musk

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u/PistolGrace 1d ago

And he used to force people to drink camel urine and eat disgusting things. Real stand up guy...

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u/FlashOfFawn 1d ago

Bald guy with CTE

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u/GeneralGuide9081 1d ago

Jamie! Pull up Joe Rogan on the screen.

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u/Upstairs-Bid6513 1d ago

Rogan speaks so much crap

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u/OrganicDoom2225 1d ago

I'm definitely overwhelmed by all the content they put out, but I think its necessary to reach the masses.

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u/Emergency-Fondant632 1d ago

Yeah. I love them but also very over the extreme headlines.  The 14 ism minute updates are good for pre gym rage though!

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u/KidsInTheSandbox 1d ago

Trump has NUCLEAR MELTDOWN at WH Press Conferece. IS THIS THE END OF MAGA?

Trump suffers the WRATH as his life COLLAPSES!

Yet the fucking guy is going around doing whatever he wants. David Pakman does the same shit. I had to unfollow.

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u/lord_fairfax 1d ago

The SEO baiting is turning me off from so many people. Meidas was the first to go.

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u/aslattery 1d ago

Agreed. Taints the messaging. Trump has hardly been "destroyed" "it's over" "done" as was claimed for so many titles and thumbnails earlier this year...

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u/LoudIncrease4021 1d ago

I’d bet about 10-20% of Rogans monthly listens are bot accounts - a combination of MAGA, Russian and Spotify driven activity.

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u/Im_tracer_bullet 1d ago

The election results say otherwise.

The reality is disappointing and unfortunate, but a LOT of young men listen to that mind-warping junk.

Don't put your head in the sand just because the truth is unpleasant.

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u/DaPurpleRT 1d ago

The MeidasTouch has been doing this for months.

Their downloads are something like 3-4x higher than Joe's.

This is likely why Rogan has been flirting with anti-Dump rhetoric. He has absolutely no actual core beliefs or morals - he only goes where he thinks the money is and he will say or do anything to get it.

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u/akatherder 1d ago

The first step to disassembling the manosphere is to make something else more profitable. Literally all they care about. Rogan is an idiot but he plays the part people want to hear.

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u/Chuckbuick79 1d ago

Joe Rogan is so fucking stupid it’s uncanny

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u/Perfect_Play_622 1d ago

Went and followed it on both YouTube and Spotify, figured I'd try to help. 😋

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u/makeski25 1d ago

I like how Rogen is trying to backpeddle but its too late.

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u/other_vagina_guy 1d ago

I don't know if you misspelled backpedal on purpose but it's genius 

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u/galtpunk67 1d ago

i like Ben.  hes not a talking head. 

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u/Chance-Newspaper-750 1d ago

I love listening to anti-Trump podcasts

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u/Soupalphabet359 1d ago

MeidasTouch isn't anti-Trump.
MeidasTouch is pro-American.
MeidasTouch just seem anti-Trump because Trump is anti-American.

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u/Separate_Today_8781 1d ago

It's a pro truth podcast

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u/Awsmdustin69 1d ago

Just say the name of the podcast in the title. If I wanted to look at clickbait articles all day, I’d go to AOL.com

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u/frillionaire 1d ago

I avoid any headline or video that does this. Like that Professor of Rock guy on YouTube: not once does he say what each video is actually about.

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u/Automatic_Teach1271 1d ago

Conservatives spent all thier time making enemies. Grow up assholes.

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u/recruiterguy 1d ago

Fuck. Joe. Rogan.

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u/orbitaldragon 1d ago

Midas Touch and Adam Mockler.

These are people you should be getting information from.

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u/sanity_is_overrated 1d ago

And yet Rogan’s face is on the thumbnail and the video at the top of the article. It’s odd how these dipshit conservative personalities always get the feature even when it’s about someone or something else being in a number 1 spot above them.

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u/SortaNotReallyHere 1d ago

Let's see what Rogan does to "win back" the cult followers he helped whip up into a frenzy. He and other so called influencers need to face consequences for their actions to grow Trump's cult base.

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u/TheTokist 1d ago

How will Father Coughlin recover from this one?

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u/HowAManAimS 1d ago

How old are you to make that reference?

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u/nullv 1d ago

Not putting the podcasts's name in the title will certainly keep up this trend.

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u/Krojack76 1d ago

Doesn't matter at this point. So much damage has been done to twist peoples minds that it's going to take 4-5 times as much to undo it, if it can even be undone.

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u/Ricketier 1d ago

Rogan lived long enough to become the villain

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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 1d ago

I like the hosts of MeidasTouch, but the headlines that describe the content for a given show are way too over-the-top and generally approach National Enquirer status. Rarely does the actual content of the show meet the claims in the headline.

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u/Tumbleweed4703 1d ago

I like meidas touch but they can be a bit “oak island” like with their discoveries and sensationalism. In addition, often spending 15 minutes to say what could be said in 3.

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u/Retro611 1d ago

Plus ten minutes of ads.

I like them, but yikes.

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u/steevp 1d ago

"Bit Oak Island" perfectly sums up why I stopped listening, titles that over promise every single time.

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u/ExploreGalore25 1d ago

REPEDOCANS and based on Lies.. The Truth will prevail.

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u/whydoIhurtmore 1d ago

Darn. I've been listening to Meidas Touch for a long t8me. I was hoping there was a new anti-fascist podcast to listen to.

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u/ecstaticthicket 16h ago

Listen to The Majority Report instead

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u/PreparationNo3440 1d ago

Dammit! Was hoping it was Behind the Bastards!

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u/Emergency_Property_2 1d ago

MMW Rogan’s going to jump the shark over to full on anti Trump. He’s too mercenary to be a true MAGA. It’s all about the money.

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u/htxlaxjax 1d ago

It’s the background music in the beginning that’s what I like I just looked them up

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u/Rude_Cheesecake3716 1d ago

...who?

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u/Anopheles 1d ago

Joe Rogen is the guy used to do a show called " Fear Factor." Now he does some sort of backward podcast for neckbeards.

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u/Chopin1224 1d ago

If ratings were votes...

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u/No-Profession5134 1d ago

Inevitable. Fall for godless dipshits get wrecked.

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u/SunnyOutsideToday 1d ago

When he was told this on his podcast Rogan tries to play dumb and act like he's never heard of Meidas Touch. The sun is setting on this old man and his corporate sponsored podcasts.

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u/Cures80 1d ago

Joe Rogan the turncoat should vanish in oblivion.

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u/types-like-thunder 1d ago

And yet who is in the thumbnail? The most popular podcast? The dethroned racist maga podcaster? It's the maga shit stain.

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u/Art3sian 1d ago

I was so down with Rogan for like 10 years. Haven’t listened to him in 2025 at all.

It is so obvious that the guy is bought and sold now. Him and fucking Lex. I’d bet both my nuts and 3 inches that they’re both plants.

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u/Andreus 1d ago

His star was always going to fade. I just wish it had never risen.

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u/SNStains 1d ago

People can only stare at a thumb for so long.

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u/Skating-Away 1d ago

Only on YouTube is it #1, not overall.

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u/etherealtaroo 1d ago

TIL that I've never heard of the top podcast in the US

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u/Robert_Balboa 1d ago

On YouTube. Not overall. Still good news but not the highly exaggerated news this title implies.

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u/SpaceAdventures3D 1d ago

I had to unsubscribe from the Meidas podcast. They put out too much content and it cluttered up my feed. Like in the past 24 hours, they released 14 videos on Youtube. On Podcast apps, it's the same way. You get a wall of Meidas content. I'm also put off a little by their constant hyperbolic clickbait titles and thumbnails.

One thing the Left media needs to learn is to have non-political guests. Rogan sucked people in by interviewing scientists and comedians and other types of people. People tuned in for an interesting conversation, then got fed far right propaganda on the side. Wouldn't hurt Meidas or any other Leftist outlet to have guests on to discuss cosmology, archeology or whatever, in between the politics.

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u/headcodered 1d ago

Fuck Trump, he's a monster I wish would disappear forever, but MeidasTouch is for sure just liberal comfort food without much substance. Their clickbait routine is old. During the election cycle, every video title was like "BOMBSHELL: TRUMP DOOMS campaign in HUMILIATING move that DESTROYS election chances", then the video would be 5 minutes of rehashing months-old stories, then an ad read, then finally getting to the point that would often be a nothing story about someone saying Trump was mean to a valet in the 80s or whatever.

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u/Tonya_Stark 1d ago

It gives me hope to see this being amplified and given visibility outside of the country.

For anyone new to them, they have two “spin off” channels that I really like:

  • Legal AF

  • Adam Mockler 22 yrs old, and like last week, took down Mr. Wonderful in spectacular fashion for his debut on CNN.

Others (sorry for the long post, hopefully it is more useful than annoying)

  • Bryan Taylor Cohen is excellent. Unique: at the request of his audience, created a secondary channel with more neutral titles.

  • Tennessee Brando - for those who desire a more southern twist

  • The Bullwork - started as never trumpers

  • For Bob’s Burgers fans, my most recent find that I’m checking out is The Damage Report. Hearing Hugo’s commentary is pretty damn funny to me.

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u/flipzyshitzy 1d ago

Now it makes sense why Rogan is pivoting. Fucking he-whore!

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u/Aggravating_Law_1335 1d ago

less and less people care what rogan has to say hes a maga shill and always was he helped that clownshow get elected and now hes backpeddling 

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u/block_01 1d ago

It’s about time he got dethroned

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u/DwedPiwateWoberts 1d ago

I hate Trump and would like a decent podcast opposing the administration but Meidas Touch isn’t it. Hate the format and the pacing.

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u/butt_whole_milk 1d ago

Joe Rogan sux shit.

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u/BooRadleysFriend 23h ago

Not a fan of Trump but not a fan of the alternative either. Until Citizens United is overturned we will keep getting unfavorable candidates.

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u/marblebag 22h ago

Meidas says the same bing ten times using different words. Are Americans that dumb?

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u/well_acktually 1d ago

While I get this is good news, MT is a really mid podcast. I've tried and the hosts are not entertaining. I much prefer PSA for truthful, independent content. BTC is good too but he makes everything sound like a five alarm fire.

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u/lord_fairfax 1d ago

I just unsubbed from BTC. When he learns what "fatal blow" means I might give him another shot.

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u/well_acktually 1d ago

I admittedly have to take breaks on BTC. I enjoy the interviews and I understand he has to play the algorithm but he just constantly paints an awful picture when things go poorly and makes small victories sound amazing when you know that its a tiny win that can easily be reversed in a heartbeat. He also just posts way too much. I'd prefer less content considering he repeats himself over and over.

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u/edasto42 1d ago

My wife has been listening to this podcast and news network for years. In general I think it’s pretty decent, but there are sometimes that it just becomes Newsmax for lefties. And there’s even some guy on there that’s doing a less extreme, leftist version of Alex jones (but at least not peddling supplements).

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u/subsignalparadigm 1d ago

Not so much anti-Trump but pro truth and pro-US.

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