I’m only about 30 mins into this, but I’m going to share it...

First Point: Bravo to @joerogan - this guy btfo of traditional media day in and day out! #FakeNews dumb’s EVERYTHING down by having ‘expert’ panels barf out soundbites...

Joe does it right!

Second Point: I have *never* been a fan of @Snowden, but I’ll also say this...

The dude got steam-rolled by the same #FakeNews media that sucks at life! Hearing him tell the story with adequate time & decent questions changes things.

Not totally, but he’s getting a fair shake.
One point that is changing slightly has to do with my BIGGEST beef with ‘whistleblowers’ that go his route (or @wikileaks) - it seems that he may have taken more care to mitigate risks than I gave him credit for...

Put in context, I gave him almost no credit for risk mitigation.
We have *big* problems (historically) on how our govt treated ‘whistleblowers’ - I know some of them personally... that were treated like SHIT!

Often worse stuff than losing your career - people were attacked, families threatened, and worse!

We have to fix that...
Unfortunately, things like 👇🏻are only going to make matters worse - the same A-Hole that was behind punishing WB (and media) is now weaponizing the process against @realDonaldTrump.

We have massive challenges in this arena...

That’s it for now, bc I’m only 30 mins into it...

We all have our tolerance/opinions on Snowden, ‘whistleblowing’, the ‘surveillance state’, etc.

These are important topics - if you are painting like I am... you should give it a listen.
No matter what, we all ‘own this’ - the results are all of ours, like it or not.

We need to fix this shit-show that we have had for (at least) the last couple of decades.

We’ll never get out of this unmitigated disaster unless we understand *why* these ppl choose this route.
This reads poorly so I want to clarify...

My biggest beef with going to ‘wikileaks’, or other media, is that I don’t think they do an adequate job at ‘mitigating risks’.

Both in terms of people and NS secrets...

It’s also the political ‘gotcha’ arena, were nothing gets fixed.
In terms of my impression of Snowden... he may have given more thought to that than I realized.

Or... he maybe fluffing himself w/luxury of years perfecting his ‘pitch’?!

In any regard, these are the kinds of things you can evaluate in a podcast like this.

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