Joe Rogan And Dave Portnoy Discuss Andrew Tate’s ‘Schadenfreude’ Arrest And His Intelligence

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Joe Rogan, the King of Podcasting, hosted Barstool Sports founder and media mogul Dave Portnoy on The Joe Rogan Experience for episode #1920.

The two extremely influential modern media figures discussed everything from how Portnoy has champagne bottles with engravings of his enemies’ names to the Call Her Daddy controversy to Andrew Tate’s recent arrest in Romania.

The Andrew Tate discussion is fascinating because while neither Joe Rogan or Dave Portnoy spew Tate’s brand of toxic masculinity they both have keen insight into Tate’s success. Portnoy and Rogan are as acutely aware as anyone of the power that someone like Andrew Tate has through social media.

There’s a decent amount to unpack here. The ‘schadenfreude’ comment is spot on from Rogan. Tate went after Greta on social media and then immediately got hauled in.

Takeaways from this Joe Rogan and Dave Portnoy segment on Andrew Tate

Both Joe Rogan and Dave Portnoy are quick to point out that nobody really knows what’s happening with Andrew Tate in Romania. Details of his arrest and the ongoing investigation are scant.

Rogan then seems to imply that much of what Tate does and says is all performance art. Saying that Andrew Tate’s cigar-smoking and supercar-driving persona is a character used to amass a huge following.

Joe says “I know a lot of what he does is theater. A lot of what he does is very like satire. He plays the role of this boastful misogynist who smokes cigars and drives Lamborghinis and that’s his thing.”

And it’s at this point that Joe Rogan actually praises Andrew Tate’s intelligence quite a bit. He goes on to say that Andrew Tate “says very wise things. He says ridiculous s–t but also says really interesting things, he’s a very smart guy.”

Joe then references an Andrew Tate interview with Patrick Bet-David after Tate was ‘canceled’ off social media. Rogan says in that interview where they talk for hours, you get to see that Andrew Tate is a “very intelligent and calculated guy.”

Adding that “you might not agree with his message, you might not agree with all the misogynist stuff, you might not agree… and I (Joe Rogan) don’t agree with it… You might not agree with all the crazy antics, but you cannot deny that that’s been incredibly successful because it resonates with a lot of young men who don’t feel represented in the media.

Another point to be made here is how Joe Rogan points out that all of Andrew Tate’s critics who want these charges to be true so Tate is imprisoned aren’t considering that if the charges are true that means that victims were severely harmed in the process. Rogan implies that everyone should be actively rooting for these charges to be false because that means there were no trafficking victims.

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