By Ben Meiselas
See ya, Joe Rogan! I know you’re now worth hundreds of millions of dollars for promoting a fascist oligarchy under the guise of a “podcast.” I know the corporate media talks endlessly about how “powerful” your show is. I know your fans think they’re “tough guys” for parroting your misogynistic and racist drivel, laden with dangerous conspiracies laundered under the pretext of pseudo-intellectual discourse. But guess what, Joe?! The MeidasTouch audio podcast is now beating you on the podcast charts.
Let me repeat that, Joe. The MeidasTouch Network and the MeidasMighty are now beating your audio podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, on the podcast charts. What makes this even sweeter, Joe, is that the MeidasTouch audio-only podcast receives fewer downloads than our video streams, which rack up about 30 million views/downloads every 48 hours. When we compare the aggregate views/downloads of video and audio, MeidasTouch is comfortably beating The Joe Rogan Experience.
Joe Rogan is pissed at Meidas. His fans are livid. How could their idol, the “infallible” Joe Rogan, be losing to three brothers with a shoestring budget who record from their living rooms and have zero investors? The corporate media told you that Rogan was “the best,” but even with all the resources imaginable in the right-wing media universe, Rogan is trailing Meidas.
How good is this? This week, the MeidasTouch podcast was the number one YouTube channel in America, and now the MeidasTouch Network is the number one audio podcast in American news—thanks to you, the MeidasMighty.


Also, we’re teaming up with Jim Acosta to deliver some great content today, which we hope will be the start of some incredible collaborations.
There’s a reason my brothers, our team, and I keep getting death threats, harassment, and cyberattacks—which we fight off. Trump and the oligarchs are scared of us. Trump and the oligarchs thought they would win the information war with lies and propaganda. They’re losing to the MeidasTouch Network, which is based on truth and the power of “we the people.”
We’re inching closer to 4 million subscribers on our YouTube channel, which we could hit this week. We’re also approaching 6 billion YouTube views, which we’ll reach soon. We’ve become the top news source in the USA, in Canada, and in many other countries worldwide. This is now the main destination and organizing point of both the domestic and international resistance against Donald Trump and his regime—thanks to you!
We hope you enjoy our collaborations with Jim Acosta. We hope you’ve been finding our YouTube videos, our Substack posts, and all our social media content helpful. We hope our interviews have been pushing the resistance forward. I hope you’ve noticed how much we’ve been growing—thanks to you. I hope you feel we’ve been meeting the moment.
I am so ready to keep fighting with you. We need to keep people motivated, in the fight, and inspired. Heck, the MeidasMighty is beating Joe Rogan, and y’all should be proud.
Let me know what you think about our Acosta collaboration and our growing content partnerships.
Tell us what else you’d like to see.
We came up slightly short of our subscriber goal yesterday, but we can hit it today if you subscribe now.
We have zero outside investors—we are 100% independent and 100% people-powered. Help us grow by becoming a subscriber now, and let’s show the billionaires and oligarchs that we don’t need them! Let’s keep beating Joe Rogan and Fox.
Thanks for helping us beat Rogan and Fox, and thanks for subscribing. Let’s do this!
Joe Rogan has 1% of the intelligence and courage of Meidas mighty! All he talks about are conspiracy theories and UFOs. My civil service colleagues and I are gathering evidence on the muskrat and his millions committing crimes!
https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-one-elected-elon
Congratulations, well deserved recognition! Adding Jim Acosta is another reason to be connected with you!