To this group, Guo provided a description of what he had discussed with Miller. Guo appears to have communicated one-on-one with Miller, then forwarded the exchange to a group of around 20 associates according to a person who shared the messages with Mother Jones. Guo added, seemingly jokingly, that he himself was a “fake gentleman.” You’re a 100 percent gentlemen,” Guo responded in another audio message. “I was very humble when I spoke with his producer yesterday.” “We don’t want to do any bad things to this guy ,” Guo, who speaks slightly fractured English, responded in an audio message. “…opefully we won’t have anymore outbursts.” “Yeah, it’s not good,” Miller said in a WhatsApp text message to Guo, noting that he had recently spoken to Rogan’s producer in an effort to smooth things over. But these messages-which were obtained by Mother Jones-show Guo dispensing advice (arguably instructions) to Miller and suggest he is more involved than the company has acknowledged. Miller and Gettr have repeatedly asserted that Guo does not play an active role in the company’s operations. As he dealt with the fallout, Jason Miller, the former Trump campaign spokesperson who is the company’s CEO, traded messages with Guo Wengui, the controversial fugitive Chinese billionaire and ally of Steve Bannon, whose company created an early version of Gettr. The hugely popular podcaster Joe Rogan, who days earlier had signed up for the app, was publicly blasting Gettr as “fuckery” and “fugazi” and accusing the startup of artificially boosting his follower count by adding his massive Twitter following of 8 million to his much smaller audience on Gettr. Rogan was essentially saying Gettr was juicing the numbers and claiming millions of users it didn’t have.Īn attack from Rogan, the host of the biggest podcast in the country who is popular on the right, was a big problem for a social media firm that is only six months old and targets conservatives as its consumer base. Last week, Gettr, the social media site that sells itself as a MAGA alternative to Twitter, entered damage control mode. Great show of self control from Joe Rogan.Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Joe mercifully let go and the two eventually laughed it out and shook hands. The guy did touch again and Joe went for a snapdown to guillotine choke. Joe didn’t like it and he warned him that if he touched him again, he would choke him out. The story is that in 2006, a strange guy got in a heated argument with Joe Rogan. Rogan’s BJJ instructor Jean Jacques Machado recently was a guest on his podcast, and he shared some interesting insight on just how good Rogan is in Jiu-Jitsu: Just How Good is Joe Rogan in Jiu-Jitsu? Jean Jacques Machado Answers The Question There isn’t much footage of Joe Rogan rolling or competing in BJJ so many people wonder about his level. He started judo at the age of 20 and after a year of training received blue belt. By the age of 19, Rogan won the US Open Tae Kwon Do Championship and, as lightweight champion, went on to beat both the middle and heavyweight title-holders to obtain the Grand Championship. He soon became the Massachusetts full contact Tae Kwon Do champion four consecutive years. During high school, Rogan was a practitioner of Taekwondo and gained a black belt at age 15.
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