{"id":392888,"date":"2026-07-31T02:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392888\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:09:44","slug":"joe-rogan-says-austin-works-because-texas-stays-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392888\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan says Austin works because Texas stays red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a saying about Austin, &#8216;Keep Austin Weird and surrounded,&#8217; surrounded by red people. It\u2019s all red states around you, and this pocket of blue that is in the center of this red state,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/article\/joe-rogan-lex-fridman-time-100-creators-2026-22346128.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rogan <\/a>said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that that\u2019s good for everybody. It\u2019s a balance,\u201d he said. \u201cThe liberals who want to turn Texas blue, don\u2019t, you\u2019re going to ruin it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Austin-based podcaster discussed misconceptions about Austin&#8217;s political demographics during a nearly 3-hour conversation with conservative author Forrest Galante.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan argued that coastal \u201csnobs\u201d think Texas is filled with rednecks, ignorant and foolish people, and he pushed back on that notion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not that way at all, especially in Austin. Austin is like one of the most liberal, easy-going, progressive cities,\u201d he said. \u201cEven the progressives here are more reasonable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rogan described politically\u00a0left-leaning people who live in\u00a0Austin as \u201cway less crazy\u201d than in Los Angeles or New York, agreeing when Galante asked whether they were more \u201cdown to earth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rogan said those same people were \u201cdefinitely more crazy\u201d than when he first started coming to Austin two decades ago, but again emphasized that the political balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a liberal city surrounded by hardcore Republicans with guns and tigers,\u201d\u00a0Rogan said. \u201cIt works. It makes for nice people. It\u2019s a good mix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s a saying about Austin, &#8216;Keep Austin Weird and surrounded,&#8217; surrounded by red people. It\u2019s all red states&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-392888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}