imagine explaining this ban to your kids one day.
“what got you banned from every nba arena for life?”
“i ran onto the court for a selfie.”
“was the selfie at least good?”
well…
i’m genuinely fascinated by the math here.
arrested.
lifetime ban from every nba arena.
all in exchange for about 10 seconds of internet fame.
somewhere in there, somebody decided that was a good trade.
two media formats that spent years moving in opposite directions are suddenly starting to look a lot more alike.
i got curious and put together a quick comparison.
to be clear, i don’t think rogan succeeds because he’s the toughest interviewer.
he often lets people talk uninterrupted, sometimes longer than i think he should.
but that’s also why guests say things on his show they’d never say in a traditional television interview.
i’ve watched hundreds of hours of rogan on youtube, and i’ve always thought the guests were the bigger draw.
his real talent wasn’t becoming america’s top interviewer.
it was proving people would rather listen to a 3-hour conversation than a perfectly produced 7 min segment.
60 minutes spent decades teaching america that long-form conversations matter.
then youtube and podcasts took the format, removed the gatekeepers, and captured the audience.
now legacy media is trying to figure out how to get them back.
if cbs is considering rogan, the story isn’t joe.
the story is that legacy tv spent years dismissing podcasts, only to discover the audience left anyway.
the question isn’t whether rogan fits @60Minutes
it’s whether 60 minutes is trying to become a podcast.
the funniest part of 2026 is that nobody even asked which part of this post was satire.
p.s. hunter’s hatred of jake tapper appears to be one of the few remaining constants in the universe.
WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)
Yesterday I argued that if you’re going to fundamentally remake an institution, the burden of proof is on the people doing the remaking.
The CBS story has now moved beyond personnel decisions and executive shakeups.
It’s become a fight over credibility itself.
.@HunterBiden goes viral on twitter for a week.
people start joking about a presidential run.
prediction markets start reacting.
welcome to 2026, where memes hit the markets before they hit the polls and attention gets priced in before reality.
.@HunterBiden goes viral on twitter for a week.
people start joking about a presidential run.
prediction markets start reacting.
welcome to 2026, where memes hit the markets before they hit the polls and attention gets priced in before reality.
@60Minutes Every institution runs on trust.
Not buildings. Not logos. Not press releases.
Trust.
And when the people inside the institution start publicly questioning each other's integrity, the audience inevitably starts questioning the institution itself.
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Yesterday I argued that if you’re going to fundamentally remake an institution, the burden of proof is on the people doing the remaking.
The CBS story has now moved beyond personnel decisions and executive shakeups.
It’s become a fight over credibility itself.
Maybe it’s because I spent a large part of my career in news and media, but the reaction to Scott Pelley being fired has been almost as interesting as the firing itself.
The irony?
For years, attacks on @60Minutes came from the outside.
Now the questions are coming from inside the building.
And audiences tend to pay closer attention when the criticism comes from people who were in the room.