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The most baffling thing about it is that Joe Rogan was a comedian for most of his professional life yet his show is not funny at all. The one thing I can say in his favour is that he gives his guests unlimited time and space to talk. So many interviewers talk over their guests and try to be the centre of attention I just hate it. But Rogan’s guests don’t interest me with all the kooky stuff they promote, and Rogan himself eats it all up.

I suspect he is the Taylor Swift or Mr Beast of talk shows. If you have no experience with music then Taylor is very accessible and easy to discover. Mr Beast will be on the front page when you visit Youtube if you don't have an established watch history. I am sure Rogan tops the podcast apps. The platforms promote him because he has an audience and he is always being discussed.

It is the lowest common denominator stuff. You can likely discuss Rogan along with the cricket or free to air reality tv with regular people and be on common ground.

Rogan's ignorance is comical and a bit concerning how many people hang on his words but he fills a niche that people seem to desire. When they claim to be upset about all the haters they are behaving more or less like Swifties. They absolutely love hanging out with other Swifties and can't understand why we don't all agree with them. That isn't being a victim. That is petulance.

Who’s this Jo Rogan sheila?

I was a fan up until around episode 800ish. The comedy/fitness guests were fun and informative. I eventually found the guests more and more wack so I gave up on the show.

There's a lot if casual misandry in the media. There is a rejection of the traditional male head of the household gender role but there isn't a clearly defined replacement that we agree to so right now a lot if younger men have no real masculine ideal to aspire to and guys like Rogan fill that hole as he's supposedly tough, funny, responsible and a solid bread winner for his family (regardless of whether that is accurate IDK). He gives guys a model to aspire to even if it is controversial.

What I wonder is how we shift away from the caveman ideal that Rogan represents to someone more in the vein of Bob Ross or Fred Rodgers (Mr Rodgers Neighborhood). We would all be better if guys wanted to be Fred Rodgers

I feel like Tim Heidecker's parody of rogan says more than this article did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Iyg9fznvM

I've listened somewhere between 500 to 1000 episodes from him. I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan but it's just one of the shows I've subscribed to on my podcast app and when ever he has a quest on who sounds interesting I download the episode and listen to it while working. I don't agree with him on everything but that applies to all the other podcasters I listen to as well. Joe has his flaws but generally I find him smart, nice, honest and a reasonable person. If one bases their opinion about him on the articles and YouTube clips of him then I can't really blame them for having a skewed perspective but personally, as someone who has listened thru the entire 3 hour episode and knows the full context, I'm not very convinced by most of the accusations made of him. One simply couldn't hide their "true personality" while putting out tens of thousands if hours of unscripted discussions online. I feel pretty confident in saying that I know Joe about as well as you can know someone without ever having met them.

I hate Joe Rogan, but occasionally he has interesting guests on, and I'm forced to tolerate him for a bit.

I listened to a few of his interviews some years back and only really came away with the conclusion that he's a dumbfuck who'll get most of his opinions from the last person he talked to.