“What was your feeling about Joe Rogan’s comments?” “About vaccination? Ridiculous, obviously.” “Don’t say that. Stay out of it… With a platform comes responsibility.” Just two frat bros shooting the shit, right? Ironically, it’s an exchange straight out of the atmosphere of Joe Rogan’s own show The Joe Rogan Experience, where the host argues the toss on any number of pop culture ephemera, aliens, The Sopranos, Bernie bros, the lot. In this case Rogan had suggested healthy young people were within their rights to think twice before taking a Covid vaccine: “If you’re a healthy person… like, I don’t think you need to worry about this.”
Carlisle Floyd is the founding father of American Opera
Floyd is the the first US composer to let go of the coattails of Europe, with his libretti rooted in the harsh realities of southern American life.