Joe Rogan's Censorship Battle - Coleman Hughes

His success is a finger pointed at mainstream media saying, "You guys are ******* up." Mainstream media doesn't want to admit that. They would much rather believe his success is an element of him being able to weaponize racism, misogyny, and homophobia, and feed red meat to a bigoted audience. That's the way that they can preserve their image of saying, "No, there's nothing wrong with us. We're doing an amazing job."

(wind blowing) Coleman Hughes, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me.

What has the response been like since you released your rap track? Because I know that you've been rapping for far longer than you've been writing.

Mm-hmm.

But to a lot of people, this probably sounds like finding out that Sam Harris has released a diss track on someone-

(laughs)

... that it runs quite, quite counter to their perception of what you are and who you are.

Right. Yeah, the reception has been awesome. I mean, I've gotten so much good feedback. I think people are receiving it the way that I meant for it to be received. And, um, it's, it's, it feels great to finally be able to converge my music identity and my public intellectual identity, because, you know, like you said, I've been doing both for a long time, uh, in my private life, but in my public life, I've, I've been doing the writing and podcasting way more than I've been doing music. So it's good to finally show people both of these sides of myself.

The track bangs as well. It slaps man. It's really good.

Thank you.

Really, really good. And you went to Ukraine to shoot some music video in the freezing cold?

Yeah, that, that's where it was shot. It was, um, in like a s- what would normally have been a kind of circus, as in for animals, uh, in Ukraine, and it was not at all heated. It was in the dead of the Ukrainian winter, so it was basically like being outside in the middle of a Ukrainian winter for like 12 hours, two days in a row. It was brutal. But the result-

That's the sacrifices you gotta make, man. The sacrifices you gotta make.

Yeah, I mean, I ended up having a lot more respect for actors. I had no idea the actual toll it takes to act several days in a row in conditions that are tiring and exhausting. Like these people, like I have no idea what they went through to, to, to shoot that movie, The Revenant, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, but my God, the stamina it takes is far greater than you would assume from the outside.

I saw a behind the scenes of Game of Thrones' final season. Now, say what you want about narratively, the way that that show finished, but looking at the cast, sat down on seats, just waiting for their turn to go as the film crew finally get the lighting right, they finally get the camera angles right, and they've run through it and run through it and run through it. It's the patience game. I imagine that a lot of actors develop a, a serious amount of patience while they're doing that.