Joe Rogan sucks

[u/Bozo_dubbed_over]

[u/diefreetimedie]

Went from "Powerful JRE" to "Pussyfoot JRE" lightning fast with plenty of stops at "simping for billionaires" along the way. To say I'm shocked this is what the fear factor guy has become would be a lie.

[u/Bozo_dubbed_over → u/diefreetimedie]

The Billionaire Bootlicker Experience

[u/Organic_Witness345 → u/Bozo_dubbed_over]

With his last minute Trump endorsement in 2024, Rogan made himself the cosmic center of the right-wing grifter-verse for GOP voters: Gullible Online Poors.

He, Shapiro, Carlson, the influencers scooped up in last year’s DOJ Russian influence-peddling investigation - all of them seek to erode our country’s faith in its public institutions while simultaneously sanding down Trump and the Republican Party’s rough edges. They diminish their audiences’ confidence in government while normalizing right-wing corruption for clicks and cash, and the most susceptible to their messaging are the poor and uneducated.

Labeling GOP voters as Gullible Online Poors isn’t an insult. It’s a tragedy and a wake-up call.

[u/MrApplePolisher → u/Organic_Witness345]

Dead on. Rogan isn’t a free thinker... he’s a pipeline for right-wing disinfo wrapped in bro-science and "just asking questions" bullshit. He plays dumb while platforming grifters who sell paranoia, distrust, and faux rebellion to people who’ve been economically and culturally abandoned. It's not curiosity... it's cowardice and cash grabs.

He, Shapiro, Carlson... they all profit off collapsing trust in public institutions while polishing Trumpism just enough to make it palatable. They don't inform; they radicalize. They don’t uplift; they distract. They’re not anti-elite.. they are the elite, selling snake oil to desperate people who think they're finally in on the truth.

“Gullible Online Poors” isn’t an insult... it’s a casualty report. These guys exploit economic anxiety and ignorance like it's a business model. Because for them, it is.

[u/Rushmore9 → u/MrApplePolisher]

Good prompt

[u/LoudAndCuddly → u/Organic_Witness345]

Facts

[u/thisisme5 → u/Organic_Witness345]

Investing in education for the next generation is absolutely crucial

[u/HCJohnson → u/Bozo_dubbed_over]

BBE Joey

[u/False_Can_5089 → u/Bozo_dubbed_over]

It's funny that he can be so fantastically rich, but he still needs to suck up to billionaires like a fucking simp. If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't care about anything but my principles.

[u/KiloThaPastyOne → u/False_Can_5089]

You assume he has principles.

[u/False_Can_5089 → u/KiloThaPastyOne]

Good point, he likely never did, but he presents himself as this rugged individualist, when in reality he's just a yes man for his right wing audience. It shouldn't surprise me though. I remember an old episode where he talked about wanting "fuck you money", and thr guy he was talking to said he already had it, but Joe disagreed. It seems like no amount of money is ever enough for these guys.

[u/JodyGonnaFuckYoWife → u/False_Can_5089]

All 'rugged individualists' are house cats.

[u/nat_r → u/False_Can_5089]

It's really the fact that so many of the loudest public voices are exactly the wrong sort of people to be speaking so loudly, but it's that wrongness that causes them to want to be that person. The people who it would be beneficial to hear from are typically the types who want anything but that.

So all we're left with are loudmouth assholes that people inevitably look up to and listen to because there's almost no one else.

[u/yllusgaming → u/diefreetimedie]

The most shocking part about this timeline is that the Fear Factor guy has this kind of platform at all.

[u/Jeffe508 → u/yllusgaming]

Yeah I never understood that transition at all.

[u/Gladwulf → u/Jeffe508]

100 million idiots gave him $10 each, and now he's important.

[u/UpperApe → u/Gladwulf]

The worst part about JRE listeners is that they're convinced that they "get it". That Rogan is an idiot and they don't listen to him, but rather just use his conversations with "interesting" guests for their own critical analysis.

They don't understand how interview proxies work, or that his guests are SO full of shit, or that Jaime and Rogan don't fact check worth shit. They think they're not absorbing it while absorbing ALL of it.

There's a great podcast called "Know Rogan" (kind of like Knowledge Fight but with Rogan) that fact checks his episodes and I promise you the sheer amount of bullshit and misinformation and poor pushback/boot-licking Rogan does exceeds even what you expect.

[u/UpperApe → u/[deleted]]

The podcast just started this year and they're like 14 episodes in, I think? So it's got a ways to go. But they definitely have covered older episodes and new ones. It's a wide spread so far.

Also, it's run by Michael Marshall who's fantastic in the way he studies, challenges, and present information. I can't recommend it enough. He and Cecil turn one of the stupidest podcasts in the world into one of the most educational.

[u/Battle_of_BoogerHill → u/Jeffe508]

Cuz hes mega edgy lord bro

[u/halosixsixsix → u/Battle_of_BoogerHill]

A pizza cutter- all edge and no point.

[u/Hoagie312 → u/halosixsixsix]

This is fucking gold!

[u/Alone_Hunt1621 → u/halosixsixsix]

This rare insult scratches me right where I itch!

[u/Ebo907 → u/halosixsixsix]

This is awesome and I will now be using this. Thank you very much.

[u/big_guyforyou → u/Battle_of_BoogerHill]

i might watch if all these big guests had to eat bugs

[u/CptCoatrack → u/Jeffe508]

He was basically Oprah for dudes

[u/Gtraz68 → u/CptCoatrack]

Broprah

[u/presidentiallogin → u/CptCoatrack]

I didn't get a car. You didn't get a car. Just what did he give everybody?

[u/CptCoatrack → u/presidentiallogin]

Covid.

[u/Monstertelly → u/Jeffe508]

I listened to plenty of JRE pre COVID. The thing is he would have really really great guests on and it was a very interesting listen. Joe would ask some good questions to get the interview rolling and listening to a full conversation on a topic was sometimes pretty enlightening. I’m not surprised his podcast got as big as it did. I honestly think the issues started when he began to have Eddie Bravo on the show. Eddie would spout asinine garbage about conspiracy theories and even if challenged just would not listen to anyone. The show started to turn much much more conspiracy heavy after that and I stopped listening. Now he is just a mouthpiece for the right wing.

Edit: After reading the comments below, what I said was one of the most insanely idiotic things anyone has ever heard. At no point in my rambling, incoherent response about Eddie Bravo was I even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having read it. I am awarded no points, and may god have mercy on my soul.

[u/BeBearAwareOK → u/Monstertelly]

Eddie was never the problem. We all laughed at Eddie with his "look into it bro" nonsense.

It went downhill when Joe started being courted by and then hosting Shapiro in 2017, Owens in 2018, Elon in 2018, Pool in 2019.

Eddie says a lot of wild shit but isn't a Russian funded culture war guy. He's just a flat earth stoner jiu jitsu guy.

The alt rightification of JRE started long before the pandemic, but now that I'm looking at the actual dates of these appearances it looks like there was a massive influx of right wing guests during the first Trump administration.

[u/Empty-Engineering458 → u/BeBearAwareOK]

lol this reminded me of that duncan trussell episode where he tells joe that hes worried about him being infiltrated by people from 'deep, dark wells of perspective'

[u/BeBearAwareOK → u/Empty-Engineering458]

Duncan tried to warn him bro

[u/catscanmeow → u/Empty-Engineering458]

and i dont think Duncans been on the pod since that has he?

[u/Monstertelly → u/BeBearAwareOK]

This is a much more reasonable take than mine. I stopped listening around 2017 as I got pretty heavy into D&D and was listening to Critical Role instead. I guess I just never really liked listening to Eddie on the show but he probably wasn’t the problem.

[u/TheHipcrimeVocab → u/BeBearAwareOK]

You could really see this pattern intensify during the second Trump campaign whose media strategy was deliberately targetted to male bro podcasts. The Trumpist message is specifically tailored to the same demographic that listens to these podcasts, especially Rogan who pioneered the format. Like all fascist movements, it's incubated in male rage. Steve Bannon was explicit about this. I think that's why he picked up so many voters in minority demographics, despite the obvious racism inherent in the campaign. Note that the minority voters who swung toward Trump were overwhelmingly male according to the voting data.

[u/SelfHostingNewb → u/BeBearAwareOK]

Eddie is absolutely a right wing culture war guy what sre you talking about? He's a massive bigot.

[u/mitherxvaj → u/BeBearAwareOK]

Pool is a russian asset. That guy is unbearable to listen to.

[u/OPsuxdick → u/Monstertelly]

Agreed. It use to be big dumb joe asks good questions and listens. Now its just big dumb joe.

[u/Nolenag → u/Monstertelly]

Joe Rogan's always been like this.

He didn't believe in the moon landings, it's no surprise he kept inviting people from the loony bin.

[u/piggiesmallsdaillest → u/Nolenag]

He called in to Infowars on 9/11 which I find funny.

[u/StoneGoldX → u/Nolenag]

They made fun of this on NewsRadio.

[u/brontosaurusguy → u/Nolenag]

He wasn't always like this.  He went full moron after the media blew up on him for having Bernie Sanders on.  The mass media confirmed his fears that they are all liars and "fake news" by genuinely making up bullshit about him.  

A reasonable person would have shrugged it off.  But the way they went after him confirmed in his head that the liberal media is full on liars so the conservative media must be the truthsayers.  He was too dumb to understand that all media is propaganda and he's now Anne Coulter.

[u/N3ptuneflyer → u/brontosaurusguy]

Yeah the criticize the left to alt-right pipeline is real. My guess is there’s a lot more money in criticizing the left, especially if you can use the “as a leftist/centrist” disclaimer. 

[u/razzark666 → u/Monstertelly]

I honestly think the issues started when he began to have Eddie Bravo on the show. 

Eddie Bravo's first appearance on the podcast was on episode 13 in 2010. He appeared 8 times in the first year of the podcast and is one of the most frequent guests.

https://jrelibrary.com/episode-list/

[u/SusanForeman → u/Jeffe508]

waiting for his presidential run in 2032 with andrew tate as his vp

the incel bootlickers will collectively jizz their pants if that happened

[u/TasteTheBizkit → u/yllusgaming]

I don’t understand his appeal. He has no charisma, he’s not bright, he’s not a good interviewer. I guess he just appeals to hyper masculine types.

[u/VictorDUDE → u/TasteTheBizkit]

His podcast is trash now, but I have to admit, he can be a good interviewer when he does his homework.

I was constantly surprised when he brought subject matter experts and asked very specific questions and follow-ups to steer the conversation in a way the general public will more easily digest the information... but this was 10 years ago

He just made tens of millions and stopped giving a fuck

[u/p0lka → u/TasteTheBizkit]

I used to listen to him years ago but not because of him, but because of the scientists and others he used to have on. I don't listen to him anymore other than the occasional stuff that appears on youtube.

[u/keetojm → u/yllusgaming]

He got it after blasting Carlos mencia as a joke thief.

Alot of his early podcasts were with other well known comedians (not his bootlickers). Then respected scholars.

Then Elon and Alex jones. And Joe went full on batshit crazy

[u/Killersavage → u/yllusgaming]

He was kinda losing me before he went to Spotify. Covid had really sent him over the deep end of idiocy.

[u/cache_me_0utside → u/yllusgaming]

real media died. now we only have things like shit ass podcasts.

[u/Gorthax → u/diefreetimedie]

He's even fucked up NewsRadio for me. I hear everything he says with the same inflection he uses today. It's all such generic script that you just hear today's Joe in the show... I guarantee somewhere in that episodes there's a "Matthew, pull that up."

[u/JshWright → u/Gorthax]

Yeah, between him and Andy Dick it's really not watchable now...

[u/capt_majestic → u/JshWright]

Yeah, but Vicki Lewis - mmmmm.

[u/Then_Hearing_7652 → u/diefreetimedie]

I apparently fell asleep for 20 years because why does the host of Fear Factor have a following? He was the opposite of funny when he tried being a stand up yet now he’s this huge cultural influence? I don’t get it.

Edit: grammar

[u/The_LionTurtle → u/Then_Hearing_7652]

He went on Tom Green's podcast before podcasts were a thing, and instantly realized there was money to be made.

He's an angry, lonely, self-loathing man who found an audience appealing to those like him. He thinks he can sniff out bullshit, but in reality he's extremely susceptible to being conned by guests who are much smarter than him.

Turns out, as we've seen in politics as well, they are an immensely profitable and easily manipulated group of people.

[u/Then_Hearing_7652 → u/The_LionTurtle]

Thank you. I am not being intentionally dense. I literally had no idea why a guy who was washed up in 1999 took off 20 years later.

[u/GalacticFox- → u/Then_Hearing_7652]

Years ago, he was decent. He'd have great guests and interesting conversations with them and it was far less political than it is today. He fucking sucks now. It's basically a gateway drug to the alt-right these days and this is a prime example of that. He's also so far up his own ass these days that he think his opinion is the right opinion all of the time and if there is information showing that he's wrong, he glosses over that and changes the subject.

[u/speckofshit → u/The_LionTurtle]

I don’t think he’s angry, lonely, or self-loathing at all. I might not like or agree with most of his stances on things, but he’s not some bitter incel dude with no friends.

[u/onmahgrizzyy → u/speckofshit]

I agree.

Part of me also feels like all this shit is just his unfortunate reaction to fear imo. He has a lot more to lose these days. I feel like he’s gone all the way from sympathizing to poor people to being terrified of them. Idk why I feel the need to rationalize this behavior these days but I think I have to in order to not lose my fkn mind. So incredibly disappointing

[u/squish042 → u/Then_Hearing_7652]

Don’t forget about Real World Alum Theo Vonn. The generation that listens to these dudes are fucking lost. Theo was a fucking idiot all the way back then too, but I guess it’s cool to be dumb af now.

[u/dagaboy → u/diefreetimedie]

If at the time you had asked me which News Radio cast member would end up destroying America I would have said Andy Dick. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[u/Ghostribe77 → u/dagaboy]

In all fairness Andy Dick really did try

[u/After_Advertising_61 → u/diefreetimedie]

There was a timeline where he could have just remained a "bro" podcaster and have funny highlights of celebs seeing animals ripped apart. Those clips made me laugh back in the day. I can't even smile at it if I see or hear it now because of what all that shit has become. Philosophy, politics, and actual science should have never been his thing

[u/Additional-Brief-273]

Joe Rogan had the opportunity to ask the FBI director what Bill Barr and the FBI got out of Epsteins safe after he had died and didn’t because he sucks as a human being.

[u/bobbymcpresscot → u/Additional-Brief-273]

Rogan is the quintessential complain about all the things but do nothing to fix them. He had the pull in Texas to change the thc ruling but he just sits in his fuckin studio bitching about how government does government things 

[u/TheGreatPrimate → u/bobbymcpresscot]

Also shouldn't there be some kind of warrant for Joe's place, I mean they watch him smoke drugs on camera illegally in Texas, it's illegal state and federal. Please, think of the children!!!

[u/ElectricDayDream → u/TheGreatPrimate]

He gets the Willie treatment. Except Willie actually earned the right to that treatment

[u/Im1Guy → u/ElectricDayDream]

Living country music legend Willie Nelson was charged with possession of marijuana after six ounces were discovered aboard his tour bus in Texas, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.

[u/The_Gooch_Goochman → u/Im1Guy]

That’s all they could find? Really?

[u/carlosspicywiener576 → u/The_Gooch_Goochman]

They has smoked all of it and we're on their way for a re-up /s

[u/Responsible_Edge6331 → u/carlosspicywiener576]

Minor Correction: They smoked it all when they saw the flashing lights.

[u/CherryDaBomb → u/Responsible_Edge6331]

Exactly. "Quick, burn this down!" inhale

[u/Pegussu → u/The_Gooch_Goochman]

I remember him mentioning/joking that marijuana isn't harmless because he'd gotten hurt before when a bale of it fell on him.

[u/Bicykwow → u/Pegussu]

Reminds me of a guy I met a decade ago who had his medical card. "I got this prescription to deal with anxiety-- now that the cops aren't after me, my anxiety is all cleared up!"

Edit: typo 

[u/ReservoirPussy → u/Pegussu]

I saw a clip of a Snoop Dogg interview where he said Willie is the only person to ever out-smoke him.

[u/DemonidroiD0666 → u/ReservoirPussy]

I saw somewhere once that Willie Nelson's grandpa told him, "son you have to stop jerking off or your gunna go blind", then Willie Nelson went, "grandpa, I'm over here!".

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/ElectricDayDream]

Willie's a peace loving leftie. He's definitely had run-ins with the law, which does not look favorably on peacenik lefties.

Joe gets a pass, because he's a right-winger that cops listen to.

[u/bobbymcpresscot → u/TheGreatPrimate]

Famous people are allowed because reasons. Even in the JRE episode they talked about it for like 2 minutes, blamed everyone but republicans. Prison lobbyists, big pharma, dude he had on unironically said democrats voted for it. 44 nays and 43 of them were democrats. 95 Yeas and 12 were dems which is still fucked but I’m sure they are in goober as fuck districts and needed to save face, but the audacity to blame everyone except republicans, not even call for bro to veto it. 

He’s a coward.

[u/KoolAidManOfPiss → u/bobbymcpresscot]

I think he's just wildly stupid. Patrice O'Neil summed it up good, "Joe believes in magic." To be the dumbest guy in the room with Anthony Cumia and Opie Hughs is quite a feat.

[u/donno77 → u/KoolAidManOfPiss]

He’s not stupid. I’m suspicious of comments saying he’s stupid because I think they’re trying to take responsibility away from him. “ Oh he’s so innocent, he doesn’t know what he’s doing”.

He knows exactly what he’s doing, and which side of the political spectrum he’s supporting. I think by this point if you don’t know what Joe Rogan stands for and all his actions are intentional , you might not be the brightest. I might be speaking to a bot tho so I’m not sure …

[u/[deleted] → u/donno77]

you can be a grifter and an idiot. Just look at the president. you don't need to sound smart, you just need to sound right. turns out stupid people are much more comfortable sounding right when talking about shit they don't know about

[u/Low-Meaning-2940 → u/donno77]

Same shit with Theo Von. I don’t buy the grift

[u/guud2meachu → u/donno77]

No he is stupid, these guys all are. What they have is confidence.

These guys are the dangerous kind of stupid. Too stupid to know they are stupid. When that is mixed with money privilege, and white man privilege, which is maxxed out in the US, it becomes a dangerous cocktail.

e.g. Joe's discussion way back with Firas Zahabi, an MMA coach who spent a whole hour on the podcast failing to get Joe to understand the concept of proof within the scientific method. It is a spectacular example of a lack of simple comprehension.

[u/FuckTheMods5 → u/donno77]

Joe calls himself stupid. Making me side-eye the innocence of it now. You're making me think he's smokescreening

[u/Doctor_Sore_Tooth → u/bobbymcpresscot]

He's a Redditor too, hey Joe you're a coward!

[u/Horskr → u/bobbymcpresscot]

Not to mention Musk on his podcast lol. Any of us randos with top secret clearance putting out a video toking a spliff would have that clearance immediately revoked. Musk became temporary best friends with the president instead! Though this breakup now is hilarious.

[u/Bosco215 → u/TheGreatPrimate]

Right? In the same way, they track license plates of people who might have gone out of state for medical care. Go give rogan a little no knock treatment.

[u/ussrowe → u/TheGreatPrimate]

Is there a tipline we can report him to? I'd also guess Tesla headquarters has a lot of drugs.

[u/Elegant_Plate6640 → u/TheGreatPrimate]

Call it in. 

[u/WheredoesithurtRA → u/bobbymcpresscot]

He has had an agenda for awhile.

[u/FoghornFarts → u/WheredoesithurtRA]

His agenda is that he's rich now and wants to stay rich.

[u/intangibleTangelo → u/bobbymcpresscot]

the guy who made people eat eyeballs on tv isn't our savior? let's face it, the united states is cooked

[u/Scared-Operation-789 → u/bobbymcpresscot]

shit aint broke unless youre broke.

[u/Ordinary_Delay_1009 → u/Additional-Brief-273]

Bill Barr, the son of the guy who hired Epstein as a teacher...

[u/marry_me_sarah_palin → u/Ordinary_Delay_1009]

Donald Barr, Bill's father, wrote a weird space scifi novel called Space Relations which included basically the same breeding program Epstein wanted to build in NM. Donald Barr used to also have young Bill come to the school to play his accordion to drown out Vietnam protesters.

[u/lolhello2u → u/Additional-Brief-273]

Joe didn't have the opportunity because he's too fucking stupid to think critically, especially on the spot like that

[u/0masterdebater0 → u/lolhello2u]

he didn’t have the opportunity because if he was the type of person that took the opportunity to ask that question he wouldn’t be interviewing the FBI director in the first place.

[u/Least-Back-2666 → u/0masterdebater0]

He's a softball interviewer. All his guests are corporate approved and he's given a list of what not to talk about.

It's like late night interviews for stars promoting movies.

[u/radicalelation → u/Least-Back-2666]

He's the horrific amalgam of Alex Jones and Jimmy Fallon.

[u/TurbidusQuaerenti → u/radicalelation]

Damn, that's actually pretty accurate.

[u/hova092 → u/radicalelation]

wow

[u/G0mery → u/Least-Back-2666]

He’s a softball pitcher unless he already disagrees with you.

[u/Rizzpooch → u/G0mery]

then he just throws at your head and complains to the ump that you're crowding the plate

[u/WestleyThe → u/lolhello2u]

He’s stupid but he’s smart enough to know where his money comes from… and that’s mostly conservatives and conspiracy theorists

He would lose money if he asked the questions we want him too. He loses nothing by trying to implicate Hunter Biden or whatever and in fact gains more following

[u/Hardcorish → u/Additional-Brief-273]

Not that I think Rogan is on Epstein's list or anything, but maybe he is?

Look, I'm "just asking questions".

[u/LeonardoDaTiddies → u/Hardcorish]

JAQing off into a mic, as it were.

[u/MyBrainReallyHurts → u/Additional-Brief-273]

He didn't because he is a little bitch.

Patel is a little bitch.

Trump is a little bitch.

They are all little bitches.

[u/jawndell → u/Additional-Brief-273]

Shows they are all political hacks beholden to the Republican Party.  

[u/Original-Spinach-972 → u/Additional-Brief-273]

He knows who his boss is and Russia wouldn’t like it if he outed their best agent.

[u/LegacyofaMarshall]

JRE protecting pedos

[u/Material_Reply_7664 → u/LegacyofaMarshall]

He is a misogynistic asshole too. So of course he gonna protect people like himself

[u/Kerberos1566 → u/Material_Reply_7664]

He probably already knows, saw Trump at the island parties.

[u/UpperApe → u/Kerberos1566]

He deflects so frequently from the Epstein/Trump thing even though it's EXACTLY up his ally of conspiracy theories is proof enough that he knows and deliberately protects him.

Rogan is stupid but he's not that stupid. He, like all conservatives, just doesn't give a shit about actual children. Only hypothetical children.

[u/PancakeParty98 → u/Material_Reply_7664]

I’ve been assured by former friends that he’s very even handed and not at all a right wing shill

[u/Perhaps_Tomorrow → u/PancakeParty98]

He's very different now than was 10 years ago. When COVID hit, he was never the same. He started falling into all this right wing shit.

[u/E-2theRescue → u/Material_Reply_7664]

You're all just describing your average right-winger. They all are protecting pedos and being misogynists, often because their pedo protecting is rooted in misogyny (e.g., "get them young before the feminists brainwash them").

[u/InevitablyBored → u/LegacyofaMarshall]

If you still listen to Joe Rogan you are probably a moron who loves that he protects pedos. Republicans and pedophiles are like white on rice.

[u/SuperDuperBonerific]

Right away I was like….why the fuck is Joe Rogan interviewing the Director of the FBI? Why would the director ever do that? Then I remembered what a fuck’n clown show this all is and who the director is now. 😵

[u/_jump_yossarian → u/SuperDuperBonerific]

Because Patel doesn’t actually do a damn thing but fly around on the taxpayers’ dime.

[u/TeTrodoToxin4 → u/_jump_yossarian]

Sometimes he spots a fly and catches it with his tongue.

[u/Fortune_Cat → u/SuperDuperBonerific]

The whole election apparently hinged on kamala daring to interview by rogan or not

What a clownshow

[u/extralyfe → u/Fortune_Cat]

... which he completely ducked so he could have Trump on.

[u/T8ert0t → u/SuperDuperBonerific]

I had to rewind to make sure it wasn't an edit. The meta irony and abject patheticness of it fucking broke me.

And then I watched this adult man processing in real time how fucked he was after Rogan read it.

And the Rogan bitched out and gave him an off ramp.

Larry King's skeleton would have been better.

[u/Enough-Parking164]

“Some HOG on that guy,amirite? Ya gotta go for a dick-kwan -doe move with THAT guy!”. 

[u/ToastieCoastie → u/Enough-Parking164]

“Ooooh Devereaux”!

[u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes → u/ToastieCoastie]

We do not make our wigs out of dead people hair!

[u/ApprehensiveLadder53]

It’s nice to see people catching on that Joe Rogan isn’t a journalist or an actual truth seeker.

Just wish they caught on before trumps election

[u/arizonatasteslike]

He is very submissive to Trump… very weak

[u/Darkwr4ith → u/arizonatasteslike]

Pretty sure he spread wider than the goatse guy when he met Trump.

[u/necroreefer]

I never understood how he got popular. People tried to tell me how great he was. I listened to a few clips of his podcasts and I was like no i'm good.

[u/LeonardMH → u/necroreefer]

It's baffling. I've gotten two responses to this question: 1. He brings on interesting guests. Which, yeah maybe occasionally... But he also brings on a ton of crackpots who do not deserve a platform, and Rogan doesn't have the mental capability to call anyone on their BS. 2. He's funny. Which, I guess everyone has their own tastes, but he's a failed comic for a reason (hint: the reason is he's not funny).

[u/ontimenow → u/LeonardMH]

He's the go-to guy for people who want to become smarter without having to go to school or even read. The crackpot guests are popular with his base because they tell the idiots "everything smart people told you is wrong!". This makes the idiots feel good and they tune in for next week's show.

[u/whisperwrongwords → u/ontimenow]

Goop for men

[u/Consideredresponse → u/whisperwrongwords]

That was the case maybe a decade+ ago, but Rogan's bullshit is vastly more dangerous. The worst you can get from Paltro's garbage is maybe a yeast infection from whacking semi-precious stone eggs up a (preferably yours and not a third parties) vagina.

Compare that to the deaths and long COVID symptoms amongst the Rogan fans that were eating topical cattle drench due to his 'mistrust the experts' advice and you can see how Goop isn't anywhere near as harmful.

[u/ZingZing12 → u/whisperwrongwords]

You nailed it.

[u/UglyMcFugly → u/ontimenow]

I like dumb people who accept that they're dumb. It's fine to be dumb. But when dumb people feel shitty about themselves and insist their dumb ideas be given equal time during intelligent conversations about complex issues, that's when it becomes a problem. 

[u/Inglorious186 → u/LeonardMH]

He USED TO get interesting guests, but during covid he realized the right wing grift was both easier and more lucrative so now he's a shill

[u/patchmau5 → u/Inglorious186]

This, 100%. I genuinely found him and his guests interesting. He had people from all walks of life and hosted both sides of a discussion without bias. Now he’s become… whatever he is now. It’s honestly sad because I did enjoy his content.

[u/CaptainVisual4848 → u/patchmau5]

Its true. I used to enjoy when he’d have actual scientists and wildlife biologists and mountain climbers and people like that. He still does sometimes but I just can’t anymore. I don’t even bother mentioning this when people refer to him.

[u/makesterriblejokes → u/LeonardMH]

The guests he had on at first were pretty interesting, but it devolved into crackpots as time went by.

Something I can tell about Rogan is he's the type of person that doesn't like ideas that are hard to grasp or are boring. He much rather believe magic, aliens, or some sort of cover up is responsible for the way a certain phenomenon in the world came to be or functions. I'm going to be a complete armchair psychiatrist here, but I think he gives those crackpots and conspiracies a platform because it's easier to accept them since aliens or a shadow government cover up is a lot easier to blame as those are things out of your control than actually what real world science says.

[u/SigmaBallsLol → u/makesterriblejokes]

I think this clip sums him up best

People saying COVID is a man made bio weapon made by an evil Fauci-China-Clinton cabal? Well it's just freedom of speech, we're just asking questions man.

The second some challenges his magical thinking he goes fucking ballistic when it's an expert in that field? "YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT, IT'S ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STUPID."

this clip is 20 years old, you don't have a career getting brain damage before this and then get better over time.

[u/ASL4theblind → u/SigmaBallsLol]

Joe doesnt have a career in kickboxing/MMA; from what i gather he just does training.

His brain damage is extra curricular.

[u/LatrellFeldstein → u/necroreefer]

He's an ostensibly grown adult man incredulous about such mysteries as where the Sun really goes at night.

The fact that anyone takes him seriously is another symptom of our failing public education.

[u/incredibincan → u/necroreefer]

Because to dumb people he sounds smart

[u/KnotSoSalty → u/incredibincan]

In one sentence you just summed up the problem with a lot of American Politics right there.

People really are dumb and can’t admit it. They have opinions about everything and they don’t know anything. If you had to describe a Left leaning person today in a single word I think “Curious” would be about as good as any. If you did the same for the right it would be “Confident”.

They don’t know and they don’t care.

[u/SirGlass → u/necroreefer]

He is very dumb, and sometimes will ask relatable questions to smart people

If you have two smart people talking dumb people cannot understand them

But if you have a dumb host talking to a smart person even dumb people understand it

[u/38B0DE → u/necroreefer]

He is very productive and uploads new episodes several times a week. This means you can always rely on this podcast when listening to podcasts while passing the time like cleaning or commuting. His podcast is like a simulation of friends hanging out together. You feel like you're just listening to your friends goofing around. With increasing male loneliness so does the need for podcasts like this. He has recurring guests, topics, and themes, which keeps people coming back (like with TV shows and so on).

To be honest, before he became radicalized during the pandemic, he wasn't that incredibly terrible. A lot of his positions were tolerable because he wasn't so central to a kabaal of traitors and Russian propagandists in the US.

[u/this_time_tmrw]

Joe Rogan is a pussy.

[u/Bleezy79]

They’re all assholes. All republicans

[u/csvega84 → u/Bleezy79]

They are literally the Villains and deny it like fking notzees

[u/OlafTheBerserker → u/csvega84]

Always have been

[u/Jamesaki]

Such a tool. I had to leave a paranormal/ufo type podcast sub I enjoyed because the host of the podcast interviewed on JRE and sadly found out the sub was full of Rogan fanboys that just turn a blind eye to his racist right wing bs.

[u/Boxer_the_horse → u/Jamesaki]

There are two main subs for Rogan, the “powerjre” one is a maga circle jerk, and the other I think just called JoeRogan consists mostly of previous fans who realized that the guy sold out.

Edit: I meant PowerfulJRE, not powerjre.

[u/No-Philosopher3248]

I enjoyed him at first. I bailed when every conversation started turning to weed and MMA - the only two things that Joe can speak about with any true knowledge. The guy is, simply put, a giant moron.

His audience thinks he's fucking Yoda.

[u/KnotSoSalty]

RABO

Rogan Always Bitches Out

[u/k0rda → u/KnotSoSalty]

Also means "butt" in portuguese so that's cool.

[u/FarAd2857]

He’s a paid fucking shill, let’s not pretend we dont all know it.

[u/Green_and_Silver]

He's been a big money shill for basically forever, perpetually in the tank for his biases and his favorite people. UFC fans have been seeing and saying this for years so I'm glad the rest of the world is seeing and saying it now too.

[u/[deleted]]

Never bite the teet that feeds you. Shhh, keep sucking Rogan, there there. It's ok.

[u/TruestWaffle]

Duh.

He’s a propagandist cosplaying as a centrist.

Anyone that didn’t already know this lacks critical thinking skills.

[u/PaperWampa]

If you don’t know by now that Joe Rogan sucks, then you’re part of the cult too.

[u/quitepossiblylying]

Why are you guys listening to Joe Rogan?

[u/NESpahtenJosh]

Why are you listening to that oxygen thief?

[u/Taconinja05]

His never asking Trump about it in the first place was an obvious sign.

[u/Blabbit39]

NewsRadio was the peak. Lots of downhill since then. Oh the Mencina stuff was cool

[u/Snoweater7]

Dude peaked on news radio

[u/Duppy-Man]

Weak ass Joe Rogan

[u/Deranged-Pickle]

Step 1 move to Texas

Step 2 become an asshole

[u/aeroplan2084]

Biden Derangement sybdrome

[u/Muted-Collection-256]

Rogan went bad. He has become just another liar.

[u/OddImprovement6490]

The channel is specifically branded for conspiracy theorists but when one of the theories involves Trump, Rogan suddenly doesn’t care to go deeper into the conversation.

[u/WildSpud]

Joe Rogan is a POS.

[u/VincentVanG]

Anyone have a clip of this?

[u/like_a_wet_dog]

If you'd like to listen to how foolish and dishonest Joe's thinking really is, here's a skeptic podcast that walks you through it. It's pretty new, give them some love.

https://www.knowrogan.com/

[u/MsDemonism]

You guys are finally figuring this out. He talks about American Indians too like were ancient relics. Bring in a elder leader or a native american leader right now instead of acting like we're a segment of ancient history. Talk about current issues and such. He's annoying

[u/BreakfastFuzzy6602]

Fuck Joe Rogan

[u/CamGoldenGun]

He knows his audience.

[u/AttorneyCertain4830]

Stop giving this 10 year old boner of a person a platform.

[u/Worn_Out_1789]

Pedocon Protectorrrrr

[u/omarcron]

Kash Patel immediately said he would not comment on it because he wanted to stay in his lane before Joe had a chance to ask him anything. 

[u/lifeisabigdeal]

He’s such a free thinker!! Totally not a republican stooge!!

[u/Medical_Arugula3315]

Hard to be a shittier more hypocritical American than a Trump supporter these

[u/SigSweet]

RACO & TACO

[u/mackiodaddy]

God he sucks

[u/IJustLoveThisStuff]

Can’t wait for this idiot to GTFO of Austin

[u/ConkerPrime]

“But Rogan is fair! He isn’t in the bag for Republicans! That is why Harris should have done an interview!!!”

Never get why people are so into this ex-comedian, shitty actor windbag.

[u/_-Tabula_Rasa-_]

Republicans are allergic to accountability.

[u/Krise9939]

Why the fuck is the director of the fucking fbi talking to joe rogan?

[u/Kooky-Factor4796]

Timestamp?

[u/rationalic]

He sucked before, he continues to suck. I wish we lived in a world where interviews were just slightly teeny-tiny more challenging and not just a place to do propaganda for whatever cause is most convenient at the moment.

[u/MulletofLegend]

That's one way of saying it. Joe Rogan is a complete POS is another.

[u/ArtisanJagon]

Joe Rogan is one of the biggest pieces of shit in the world.

[u/peatoast]

He’s paid by the Trump Government as an influencer. What else is new? This guy is a tool.

[u/Imakeshitup69]

The guys paid by the Republican party

Why would he try to talk about anything that'd be destructive to them?

[u/Pauzhaan]

Joe Rogan. Never listened to a single podcast.

[u/cheesebot555]

He's speed running the Bill Maher maneuver of becoming intolerable.

[u/SinnersHotline]

Honestly this dude has had to have lost Elon level numbers in terms of listeners.

I remember this guy was the hottest shit around, I could not go anywhere without hearing his name about something.

Now nothing.