Asklemmy

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If he's a "hard follower" of Joe Rogan than he likely won't be interested in other content. Rogan is a fool, but that's why people find him appealing. Content that is insightful and educational is the opposite of the junk food of Rogan.

Maybe instead, when Rogan says something like "Bro did you know like the pineal gland of the chimpanzee produces anti-covid hormones? This is just what I've heard. Look it up. By the way did you see the tree growing in my toilet?" You can help your sibling by teaching them ways to think, reason, and critically evaluate the BS that freely flows from the Roganverse.

Preferably something that has a similar flavor - example: male host, muscular, easy to digest. I think that will make the transition easier.

You don't think much of your sibling do you?

Make him watch early Joe Rogan content. Back when he actually had an open mind and interesting guests.

The Hasan Abi Broadcast

Some More News on YouTube is really great. They also do a weekly ~hour long podcast called Even More News, but I think that's better as an extension of the core showdy.

There's also Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik on YouTube. It's shorter and seems at a glance to be more right wing, but he's being ironic. That might sway him more gently. Also shout-out for being the only YouTuber who does ad reads that I'll actually sit through. Sponsors, throw your money at him, he has my fucking eyeballs.

For something more dry but still short, Beau of the Fifth Column just doesn't miss.

This comes off a little negative but totally get the desire to show a sibling something different,as someone who uses to listen to rogan regularly...

Find whatever guests he liked and nail down what it is he's actually interested in. For me it was history and comedy.

History of Rome with Mike Duncan then lead to youtubers like sandrhomanhistory and the operations room. If he's into more military and masculine show him forgotten weapons also on YouTube.

If you go as left mainstream as John Oliver it's gonna be an uphill battle. Even though I more than likely agree with what he would say have 0 desire to watch it.

Comedy wise the early cumtown episodes are goofy classics.

Before COVID Rogan's show was fantastic. As soon as the end of 2019 ramped up it was all down hill from there.

He went full Alex Jones.

Beau of the fifth column on YouTube is just for this he tries to reach people at that level and doesn't talk down to them and is great on foreign policy concepts.

I've never listened to Rogan*, but I think https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts does an excellent job of talking about current news and science items in an easily digestible format that mostly avoids bullshit while probably filling the same gee-whiz niche that people expect from Rogan? It's a panel, so not a single muscular male host, but I think if your sibling is pursuing Rogan because they think it's helping expose them to new interesting ideas, SGU is a vastly superior route to that end.

*I actually think my only Rogan exposure has been the SGU talking about how he more or less just believes the last thing anyone told him, whatever that might be, which seems... less good?

J Aubrey is a very entertaining long format YTer that explains many of the internet's worst villains. His take down of grifters don't target Joe himself, but help inoculate people from the "natural" hierarchies that dominate conservative thought.

https://m.youtube.com/@jaubrey/videos

Edit: Going through all the suggestions now - thank you! I hadn’t heard of these before. I appreciate it!

I'm tempted to voice my opinion about the question itself but I'll resist the urge and give you the correct answer instead.

Chris Williamson, the podcast is named Modern Wisdom. Perhaps you can ease him into it by recommending the episode where he was a quest on Joe's show.

I think you'll be hard pressed to find someone progressive enough for lemmy to like that will also be interesting to a Joe Rogan fan. I would recommend Destiny though. I wouldn't say he's like Joe Rogan, but he frequently does debates with commentators of all politcal positions including those with similar beliefs to Joe. He has an aggressive, confrontational style that would be your best bet at trying to demonstrate the weaknesses of the views Joe would advocate for.

If you're not familiar with his views, Destiny could probably be described as a left-leaning liberal institutionalist moderate. His community can attract a variety of viewpoints and is relatively accepting of criticism for Destiny so your brother would have an easier time interacting with them than someone like Hasan.

It's nice you are trying to look out for your brother like this. Good luck!

Modern Wisdom