Joe Rogan, in a podcast on Wednesday, accused employees at major Bay Area tech firms of waking up “activists,” calling employees at companies like Google “mentally ill” and “lunatics who run an orphanage to a degree.”
Speaking with Silicon Valley veteran Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former Apple and Facebook engineer who was fired by the Mac maker after employees requested he be expelled over “misogynistic” articles in his autobiography in which he wrote “Women in the Valley “. “total crap” and compared the former Indian colleague to “a bored Delhi autorickshaw driver”.
Rogan, 54, asked an experienced technologist what it’s like to work for two tech giants.
What is it like to work for these companies? Rogan asked his guest. “For example, whether it’s Facebook or any technology company.”
“For someone from the outside, we look at it and say: “How are these damn places arranged?”
Before Martinez, who previously worked as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs, could respond, Rogan recalled a conversation with a “good friend” who worked in an executive position at Google before leaving the search giant for another “big tech company.”
“And the way she described it to me is like complete madness,” the comedian and UFC commentator said. “And the lunatics run the orphanage to some degree.
Rogan continued: “Because many people within the company are legally mentally ill and consider themselves activists.
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Joe Rogan, in a podcast on Wednesday, accused employees at major Bay Area tech firms of waking up “activists,” calling employees at companies like Google “mentally ill” and “lunatics who run an orphanage to a degree.”
“And they have to calm them down,” the former Fear Factor host claimed, “because there’s a certain percentage of people who work for the company and they’re the loudest – and they often don’t get the job done.” .’
Rogan then noted, disappointedly, that whenever these awakened workers “face” the fact that they are not doing work, “they talk about their activity.”
Rogan then told the 45-year-old Martinez how his friend was forced to tell employees of the search company that worked under her: “You are here X hours a day. This is your damn job. You are not an activist.
Martinez, who wrote Chaos Monkeys, a work that recalls his experiences at Bay Area tech firms and compares Silicon Valley employees to the typical image of a room full of monkeys clattering nonchalantly on typewriter keys, responded that firms using these people are to blame because they encourage employees to “bring the real you to work.”
He told Rogan that big tech firms like Facebook are “like a cult” where employees have a “campus lifestyle” where “they do your laundry” and “feed you.”
“Facebook was a cult and I joined and I was a happy member of it,” admitted Martinez, who worked on the Mark Zuckerberg-run platform from 2011 to 2013, during which time he became a powerful figure in the company’s advertising. product team.
“It was very powerful. Everyone sacrificed himself for the sake of the empire and its emperor.”
Did it change your personal thinking while you were in the cult? Rogan kept asking.
Martinez, who wrote The Monkeys of Chaos, a work in which he recalls his experiences at Bay Area tech firms and compares Silicon Valley employees to the typical image of a room full of monkeys clattering typewriter keys inadvertently, described to Rogan how big tech firms are like Facebook, “something like a cult”, “where employees have a “campus lifestyle”, where “they do laundry for you” and “feed you”
“Oh yeah,” Martinez remarked, saying he was “vaguely aware” of the bubble surrounding the tech company due to his UC Berkeley education.
The rest of the discussion revolved around Martinez’s experience in those companies where targeted ads were placed on relevant technology company platforms.
Martinez was fired by Apple executives just a month after his new colleagues discovered controversial passages from his 2016 memoir, written after he was fired from Facebook in 2013, which they called sexist and racist.
These colleagues noted statements in his book that “women are full of shit” and another passage comparing a former Indian colleague to “a bored Delhi autorickshaw driver.”
This quickly infuriated the company: 2,000 outraged Apple employees signed a petition demanding an investigation into his hiring decision.
Apple employees disagreed with comments made in Chaos Monkeys, a former New York Times bestseller, that they found offensive.
Martinez was fired from Apple in 2021 after only a month on the job after employees petitioned for his expulsion due to “misogynistic” articles in his autobiographical book, Chaos Monkeys, in which he wrote, “The women in the Valley are full of shit.” . ‘ and compared the former Indian colleague to “a bored Delhi auto-rickshaw driver”.
García Martinez wrote that “most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak” and claimed that he “pulled into fatherhood with warm smiles and supple hips” after admitting he “played fast and loose with the rules of safe sex” .
He also roughly called a female colleague “PMMess” – a derogatory term for a woman during her period – and described a colleague with a “strong Indian accent” as an “auto-rickshaw driver” in Delhi.
García Martinez released a book back in 2016, talking about his transition from Wall Street to Silicon Valley and promising a peek behind the scenes at Facebook after he was fired from his 2013 ad manager job at the social media giant.
Rogan has acted as an outspoken critic of tech firms for their censorship and deplatforming of those whose views are deemed unworthy of the mainstream media.
On Saturday, a popular podcaster criticized the liberal media for creating a false “narrative” about Hunter Biden’s lost laptops after compromising text messages, photos and financial documents found on the devices were revealed to be genuine.
During the Saturday airing of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan urged reporters to cover up the story, which was first reported by The New York Post and weeks before the 2020 election.
He was speaking days after The New York Times finally acknowledged that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real, arrogantly dismissing the story as “disinformation” ahead of last year’s White House contest.
“This is a problem I had with the New York Post article and suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Rogan told guest former CIA officer and security expert Mike Baker live during the podcast.
“It’s not that I’m a Trump supporter,” Rogan said at first. “I didn’t vote for him, I never voted for a Republican in my life.”
The pair discussed the behavior of employees at Bay Area tech companies like Google, based in Mountain View in Silicon Valley.
He continued: “You are looking at something that is real information and you are hiding it from people because you don’t like the outcome that you think will come out of that information.
“We shouldn’t be doing this.”
Earlier this year, Spotify, which signed a nine-figure licensing deal with Rogan in 2021, was forced to part ways with the podcaster after singer-songwriter Neil Young and a host of other artists removed their songs from the streaming platform due to their refusal to work on the platform. where Rogan works because he reported on the spread of “misinformation” about vaccines and the coronavirus.
Rogan denied these claims, insisting that he is not an “anti-vaxxer”.
Rogan was then forced to apologize for the clips, which were recorded over several years before he signed with Spotify, in an Instagram post.
“I never used it as a racist because I am not a racist,” he told his social media followers last month.
“There is nothing I can do to get it back. I wish that I could. Obviously this is not possible. I certainly wasn’t trying to be racist, and I certainly would never want to offend anyone for the sake of entertainment with something as stupid as racism.”