No Stupid Questions

I feel like this is the type of question that needs to be asked on different platforms to get a proper feel for what people think about the guy. You won't get an objective answer from any one place.

The dude is a bit of a meathead who will listen to anyone he has interest in for better or worse. I enjoyed his show for a while because I generally enjoy hearing people share their thoughts on things, even if sometimes they end up seeming a little off. As it so happens, I was just as willing to hear out criticisms against his show as well when I started noticing those. Then I just kind of lost interest. It can be a fun show to listen to, but it’s kind of like a dude-bro celebrity magazine-turned-podcast for people who fantasize about being rich and smarter than everyone else. I like to call him “Joe Brogan” now because I think it fits.

I used to watch his show on YouTube, not for Joe, but for the guests. I was pretty selective in who's episodes I'd watch so I feel like I avoided a lot of the bullshit by default. But I did watch some of the real crazies just to see how crazy... very... the answer is very.

I haven't watched or listened to any of his stuff in a long time, probably since the start of Covid where he would push really hard that it's fake and that freedoms were being impinged. We had some pretty tough lock downs in Australia but the vast majority of us could see why. What Joe was saying was being echoed by "the cookers" so he lost me.

"The cookers" (as in Meth, as I understand it) is the nickname of the conspiracy theorists.

Chad interviewer, he's clueless about everything so he gets the interviewee to explain everything and asks grade 1 questions the audience can follow along

You wouldn't rely on him for advice (unless it was related to ufc/training perhaps)

Depends on the context, but generally it indicates a lack of critical thinking and a capacity to be easily swayed by sensational claims. Joe Rogan has no legitimacy as a journalist, and a checkered record when it comes to the veracity of what and who he presents on his show, which has shifted significantly rightward over the years, going from pot smoking and ancient aliens to diet supplements and anti-vaccine narratives. Generally, in the US, Joe Rogan fans are predominantly white, male, and right-wing with a libertarian bias.

The deal with Rogan is that he has become increasingly politically activated in the past years since COVID started. People consider him right wing because he holds certain economic beliefs about the pandemic and is hostile towards Biden and Senator Fetterman. He is constantly complaining about how much he personally was affected by the pandemic lockdown and is completely upset about how people with large amounts of wealth were not able to freely move about because of the pandemic. He’s a comedian that really enjoys performing, and was extremely personally and financially “hurt” by the COVID measures put in place by California, where he lived most of his life until the pandemic. His views strongly represent an upper/far upper class perspective that the pandemic measures were stifling to his career and ability to vacation. He’s otherwise pretty open minded about topics of conversation outside of COVID, and can be a good source of fitness information (by that I mean, fact check anything he says before you really take anything to heart). He really honestly comes off as an idiot to people who are an expert in any field outside of athletics where he spews an “opinion” that often gets misconstrued as an educated position on whatever complex topic.

He's a sophist.

Bill Burr said it best: knuckle scrapper.