ion. If I knew how to be Joe Rogan I would have done it by now. If anybody else in the whole universe knew how to be Joe Rogan they would have done it by now. Now every now and then there's a superstar that emerges. You know, Megyn Kelly, good example. But she wasn't trying to be Joe Rogan. Do you know who she was trying to be? Megyn Kelly nailed it. Nailed it. And I could mention you know PBD. PBD, great production, great guests, great show. You can't create that. You can't build that. These happen organically or they don't happen at all.

And here's the hard part. Does anybody know why Joe Rogan is popular? Well you know he does everything right so it's sort of everything. But if I were to pick one thing it's that he has common sense and he's an ordinary person who doesn't have any mental illness that is identifiable. Like he's just common sense. So that's what makes him so appealing. When anybody watches it, like you don't have to agree with his love of eating elk. I don't eat elk so I don't have to bond with him. I don't have any hobbies in common with him. I don't like ice. I don't want to do an ice plunge. I don't want to go hunting. I don't want to grill. I don't want to do any UFC fighting. But I love the fact that he loves it and that when he talks about it it's like a regular person and I learn things.

So you can't make a Joe Rogan. A Joe Rogan is born and then a whole bunch of things have to happen just right and then bam, you turn around one day and there's a Joe Rogan. Well I mean Joe Rogan worked at it for 10 years before he's Joe Rogan. But to imagine that the Democrats think they can just build one. Let's just build ourselves a Joe Rogan. It's like not understanding how anything works in the actual real world. It's just amazing.

Well my relative Eric Adams, mayor of New York City—no we're not actually related but we have the same last name—Eric Adams, I keep having this love-hate sort of reaction to him because he's a super common-sense guy. He's a Democrat so I'm all ready to disagree with him on a bunch of stuff. But then when he talks he starts making sense. It's like, oh the migration thing is out of control. And I'm like, well wait a minute, you're a Democrat. Oh okay, just common sense.

And so he's on The View and talking about what the Democrats got wrong and he said that when people talk to him they're talking about prices, basically what they can afford. He says quote, "They are not talking about Hitler. They're talking about housing. They're not asking me, Eric, tell me about fascism. They're talking about finance." And I'm thinking, watching Eric Adams, the common-sense kind of guy, tell the Democrats that the whole "stealing your democracy, Hitler, fascist" thing doesn't connect with anybody because we're just not registering it as real. If it were real it would definitely work but we don't really register it as real. It just sounds like something that weirdos are saying.

So let me do an abrupt left turn. Here's one you didn't see coming. Okay, so I just told you that you cannot make a Joe Rogan. You can't just say, hey I'll decide to make a Joe Rogan. We need one of those. The Democrats already have one if they can keep him out of jail. Eric Adams would be a great podcaster, right? If Eric Adams gets out of politics and he's got some legal problems which could be bigger than I think, but if he doesn't have—if he gets out of his legal problems somehow and he gets out of politics, could he have a podcast that would make you interested? Yes, I would watch his podcast. Do you know why? Because like Joe Rogan he says common-sense things which are on point, makes sense to me, and you know I can relate to them.

Yes, but here's the thing. You could not create an Eric Adams. Eric Adams had to create himself so he exists. You could take the opportunity that he's created. But the problem is he doesn't agree with all your Democrats. So the Democrats can't use a common-sense guy because it wouldn't agree with their policies. But yes, Eric Adams could have a huge podcast. He has all the tools. He's great on camera. Love the way he thinks and he has a way of talking that connects with people, you know, everyday people. Same as Joe Rogan. So they have one. It's just that if you want somebody who talks common sense like Joe Rogan, it's not going to work out for your brand. It doesn't work out well.

Vivek. I'm saying something that many of us are thinking. He said on a post on X, "It took a band of small government revolutionaries to start this country. It'll take a band of small government revolutionaries to save it." Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's funny how much all of us felt this thing. Now I tried to come up with a phrase for it early on. You've heard Greg use it as well, Greg Gutfeld. But a number of people who used it—the pirate ship analogy. That it seemed like Trump has always been able to do this. He used to be best friends with Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson lived in his building. They would hang out. Like he was a guy who could be friends with anybody from any walk of life. And he has that a