CTH isn’t even for “bros”. It’s for dweebs and trans girls lmao. We only think of their audience as “bros” as in “Bernie bros” which had nothing to do with the previous meaning of “bro” but just meant “young male”. The audience was always dorks not buff finance guys or frat dudes
Thats reality yes but people still dismiss it all as "bro stuff" in their mind and they actually think of Rogan bros and Chapo fans as the same audience.
Look at the way that like, MovieBob talks about "bros". He associates people to the left of him with the jocks who bullied him in school lmao. Because anyone who's mean to him has to be the same kind of person.
It's still a good political news podcast, but its moment was in 2016, when everybody thought for sure Hillary was gonna win. They were the perfect blend of incisive and ludicrous that nobody else talking about that election was.
I listened to one episode back when I started posting on r/cth and thought "woah this is so boring these people are cool but have bad taste" and then people campaigned for Bernie proving this bad taste
Time to make up even more obscure guys. I'll go with guy who learned about Rod Dreher through Chapo, became a weird orthodox dude, then started listening to JRE when his new hungarian friends recommended it.
WTYP-Listener who gets introduced to Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes through it, then sticks way to hard about his posts about how america is doomed and becomes a libertarian prepper who gets into online arguments about bicycles are the perfect SHTF vehicle because they require only calories for fuel instead of like global supply chains
I still listen to Chapo, but every time I've tried to listen to Joe I've turned it off. The guy is just so slow - I don't mean his intelligence, I mean the pacing of his podcast is so slow that I get bored listening to it and my mind wanders. Slow pacing like that needs to be paired with something educational or thought provoking, which JRE generally isn't.
The Chapos by contrast maintain a certain amount of energy through their episodes such that even when they're talking about some objectively stupid shit I enjoy listening to it.
I think he has slowed down. Like even his responses i see in clips. He doesn't say "whoa and this or that?!" He now goes "whooooa that's wiiiiiiiiiild."