Joe Rogan Experience #1857 - Seth Dillon

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Hey, Joe.

Nice to meet you. Officially. (laughs)

Nice to meet you in person finally.

Yeah, man. It's, uh, what has this been like for you? The Babylon Bee rise and attack, and all the chaos. Wh- when did you guys start?

2016.

What was the impetus?

The impetus was, uh, nobody was doing it. You know? There's nobody that's, like, doing satirical comedy from, like, a conservative perspective, I guess. Um, Adam Forge is the guy that founded it, and, uh, and it just ... I mean, I don't know. There was a void there. Nobody was filling that void, so he's like ... He, he publishes this site using, like, a WordPress template and, like, puts out some articles, and they go viral so quick. Like, within two months, he's getting millions of visits, so. I don't know. He just had a sense that, like, somebody ... You know, there was so much comedy. Like, the left dominated comedy. They were just dominating it. Nobody-

Why do you think that is?

There was no answer to that. Um, that's a good question. I mean ... So ev- everything ... Like, all of these institutions, the insti- like, you know, the media, education institutions, corporations, all of these things, they're all dominated by the left. So, comedians, though ... I mean, as you know, there's been this, like, there's been this opportunity, this big opportunity to kind of, like, step in and provide comedy that makes jokes that the left isn't willing to make. And so they were dominating for a while, but now I think things have shifted, because you've got all these rules about what you can and can't joke about, and the people who are willing to make jokes that kind of, like, sidestep those rules, uh, they're, you know, they're meeting a demand.

Yeah, the meme space, though, has always been very right wing in a lot of ways, because it's like the thing to make fun of. Because since the media has been so dominated by the left, whenever there's, like, a narrative that just gets pushed w- like, that sort of ignores logic and ignores reality, there's like a thing that happens where someone goes, "Yeah, but what about this?" And, like, that has been, like, the meme space. Like, memes have always been, like, very funny.

Right.

Like some of the really funny Trump memes and some of the very funny anti-Bi- Biden memes and COVID memes, they, they were kind of like on, on that vein.

Yeah. Well, you know, yeah. When you've got a, when you've got a narrative that's being advanced and it's being pushed on everybody, you know, like, I don't know. I, I fe- ... My personal take on it is that comedian's job is to, like, poke holes in it, you know?