In mid-October 2023, on Joe Rogan’s podcast, this happened. (WARNING: Profanity)
Yes, that is Rogan, wearing a spacesuit and smoking a blunt, singing along with and raving over “Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus” by Larry Norman. While Rogan gets the song’s release year wrong (it was 1972, not 1970), it is still a remarkable moment.
I am reminded of Brandon Morse’s recent VIP post here titled “Christ Can Save Anyone, Including OnlyFans Stars.” Much as we’re seeing now with social media mavens slagging on Nala Ray, insisting she couldn’t possibly be a Christian, let alone be used by Jesus, because of her past, so Larry Norman was chastised and ostracized by Christians in the 1960s and 1970s and even afterward for wearing his hair too long, playing rock’n’roll, and singing about something other than gentle…