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Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.

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FYI, Joe is openly a Bernie Sanders supporter.

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I was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was the highest-viewed primetime cable news show as of 2020 per [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings

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So who is your news source then? Who is the beacon of truth and reason we must move to?

Not saying I like Tucker, I think he's terrible.

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What shall we use as a baseline for Comparison? Joy Reid from MSNBC? Would you be ok with that?

Naw they’re only going to be satisfied with no less than her excellency Rachel Maddow

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The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.

What do you think of the signal to noise ratio of the JRE podcast? It seems like he does minimal prep and just wings it with the idea that his natural curiosity will make up for it. yes, they are 2.5hrs+ long, but IMO at least half of it is chit-chat and irrelevant to the guests knowledge often about fitness/hunting/deer/monkeys. I prefer much more focused podcasts, where the interview has prepared a series of well t…

The magic is that it’s like you’re listening to two friends have an interesting conversation and you’re the third person listening in.. particularly in this pandemic when so many suffered severe social isolation, this form of podcast is almost therapeutic.
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