“The culture war in this country is so goofy, so overblown.”
Zach Bryan and Joe Rogan came out of the gate firing during Rogan’s latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, discussing Bud Light, Travis Tritt, online discourse and the culture war going on in America.
The pair opened up cans of Bud Light as the episode begins.
Rogan says, “We’re drinking Bud Light, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry. There’s nothing wrong with it, people. Bryan interjected by simply saying, “We’re fu*ked,” with a laugh.
Rogan goes on to say how one marketing decision led to the controversy surrounding Bud Light, “This one person made a really stupid decision. Now everybody’s decided that Bud Light is the enemy, but that’s like the thing that people do in America where they just decide ‘Now I hate these people. These people are the enemy.'”
The Something in the Orange singer defended his continued drinking of Budweiser and Bud Light, citing that it was the beer he had always drank during his adult life. He then noted how he received backlash on Twitter for defending his sister’s spouse, who is transgender, adding that offending anyone wasn’t his intention.
Bryan went on to detail the interaction between him and Travis Tritt, who has been a vocal supporter of the Anheuser-Busch boycott on Twitter.
The two did, in fact, end up meeting at the Two Step Inn Festival and although, he doesn’t give us a lot of detail, this is what Zach had to say about their hour long interaction; “Travis Tritt came after me and I was like.. he didn’t come after me. Travis Tritt is so respectable, and he’s like a good guy. And I met him at the Two Step Inn where you were. And it was cool to get to talk to him about it and see like two different views. And it was cool sitting in the room with him and hearing it.”
Rogan responded by denouncing the culture war going on in America right now, saying, “You know, people, just the culture war in this country, is so goofy, so overblown. And a lot of it is people just not talking to each other. It’s people talking through social media and talking through narratives.”
Bryan expressed his fears and overall hesitation to speak his mind online. “It freaks me out, and being so public… It’s so scary. I feel like it keeps people from being who they actually are, which is terrifying because every time I get anywhere, I’m like, sh*t, man, I can’t say or do this. And then, when you do, it’s fu*king crazy.”
Bryan is no stranger to taking breaks from social media, often deactivating his Twitter account for weeks at a time. In fact, at the time of writing this, his Twitter is currently deactivated.
They wrapped up that discussion shortly after and moved on to talking about “normal” Joe Rogan topics such as the concept of infinity and eternity.
Listen to the three-hour episode here: