In times where saying the wrong thing can get you cancelled, it's all too rare to find people who are not afraid of controversy but instead embrace it.
It seems like the idea of the civil debate, even amongst people who disagree vehemently, has nearly vanished from the cultural landscape, as we have entered an age where the desire to not be offended trumps free speech and drives anyone with remotely controversial ideas underground, for fear of being shut down by hordes of angry mobs, which let's face it, are little more than cowardly trolls hiding behind their screens, probably in their mom's basement.
However, a few brave souls demonstrate that these healthy debates can still be had and are still effective at exposing crackpot ideas, as in the case of Joe Rogan recently hosting Alex Jones on his podcast and exposing his lies where warranted.
I've never been an Alex Jones fan, as people who gesticulate too much annoy me, but this podcast allowed us to take a peak behind the curtain and see that not everything Alex Jones says is nonsensical, as Rogan Masterfully demonstrated that some of his ideas had truth to it and were worth considering. In this case, not throwing the proverbial baby with the bathwater, but instead learning how to read between the lines and separate the truth from bullshit.
Shine sunlight on any idea and the truth shall appear. It does really work, but it takes time and only long-form content like the interviews of Rogan have a shot accomplishing this. Legacy media is way too stuck in its ways to be able to accomplish the same thing and remain profitable. Their whole business model is predicated on getting as many eyes as quickly as possible on their content. Rogan's authenticity and willingness to be proven wrong is incompatible with that model.
The lesson to retain, if there is one, is that there is a niche for everything. If you manage to find your audience, your message does not matter, but its authenticity does.