I've listened to my fair share of Joe Rogan over the years, mostly for his interviews relating to standup comedy, hollywood, and mma as well as some conspiracy stuff and non mainstream journalists. I don't hate the guy. He seems like a nice person and a good dad.

Many liberals have been generally upset with him for a long time, and for a variety of reasons. I saw one feminist refer to his show as "toxic masculinity with better marketing." I've seen other people criticize him as alt-right-adjacent for having long friendly conversations with conservative trolls like Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones, Charles C. Johnson, etc. He has said things like no man should ever consider himself a feminist, which sounds pretty silly (to someone like me), but it is less silly when you see his episode with Dave Foley, whose family life has been destroyed by a crazy ex wife and Canadian divorce courts which tend to sympathize with women.

My main gripe with him now is his covid related interviews with people like Dr. McCullough and Dr. Malone. It's one thing for Joe Rogan to argue politics with a Ben Shapiro, for instance, but Rogan is way out of his depth when he's talking about scientific matters, so these guys who aren't taken seriously by most in their own fields really enjoy coming on Joe Rogen to espouse their whatever to millions of naive listeners without having to worry that the scientifically illiterate host will challenge them in a meaningful way. If he were interviewing a slew of cryptozoologists arguing for the existence of Bigfoot or wendigo, I wouldn't care. But now lives are at stake, and he's functioning as a net-negative influence in this situation.

I've listened to my fair share of Joe Rogan over the years, mostly for his interviews relating to standup comedy, hollywood, and mma as well as some conspiracy stuff and non mainstream journalists. I don't hate the guy. He seems like a nice person and a good dad.

Many liberals have been generally upset with him for a long time, and for a variety of reasons. I saw one feminist refer to his show as "toxic masculinity with better marketing." I've seen other people criticize him as alt-right-adjacent for having long friendly conversations with conservative trolls like Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones, Charles C. Johnson, etc. He has said things like no man should ever consider himself a feminist, which sounds pretty silly (to someone like me), but it is less silly when you see his episode with Dave Foley, whose family life has been destroyed by a crazy ex wife and Canadian divorce courts which tend to sympathize with women.

My main gripe with him now is his covid related interviews with people like Dr. McCullough and Dr. Malone. It's one thing for Joe Rogan to argue politics with a Ben Shapiro, for instance, but Rogan is way out of his depth when he's talking about scientific matters,so these guys who aren't taken seriously by most in their own fields really enjoy coming on Joe Rogen to espouse their whatever to millions of naive listeners without having to worry that the scientifically illiterate host will challenge them in a meaningful way. If he were interviewing a slew of cryptozoologists arguing for the existence of Bigfoot or wendigo, I wouldn't care. But now lives are at stake, and he's functioning as a net-negative influence in this situation.

So he admitted to being wrong on something .... giving him more credibility.

I like Rogan. He's an open minded type libertarian IMO. I don't agree with everything he says but the long format gives him a chance to really pick people's brains and debate. He's also willing to change his beliefs when presented with new info.
I usually only listen when someone interesting is on tho.

Just started throwing on his podcasts before bed, so I don’t know much about his podcasts at all

But from every interview I have heard so far, he’s very calm, just asks questions, isn’t over the top all all

Why hated by libs? He seems very level headed

I've listened to my fair share of Joe Rogan over the years, mostly for his interviews relating to standup comedy, hollywood, and mma as well as some conspiracy stuff and non mainstream journalists. I don't hate the guy. He seems like a nice person and a good dad.

Many liberals have been generally upset with him for a long time, and for a variety of reasons. I saw one feminist refer to his show as "toxic masculinity with better marketing." I've seen other people criticize him as alt-right-adjacent for having long friendly conversations with conservative trolls like Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones, Charles C. Johnson, etc. He has said things like no man should ever consider himself a feminist, which sounds pretty silly (to someone like me), but it is less silly when you see his episode with Dave Foley, whose family life has been destroyed by a crazy ex wife and Canadian divorce courts which tend to sympathize with women.

My main gripe with him now is his covid related interviews with people like Dr. McCullough and Dr. Malone. It's one thing for Joe Rogan to argue politics with a Ben Shapiro, for instance, but Rogan is way out of his depth when he's talking about scientific matters, so these guys who aren't taken seriously by most in their own fields really enjoy coming on Joe Rogen to espouse their whatever to millions of naive listeners without having to worry that the scientifically illiterate host will challenge them in a meaningful way. If he were interviewing a slew of cryptozoologists arguing for the existence of Bigfoot or wendigo, I wouldn't care. But now lives are at stake, and he's functioning as a net-negative influence in this situation.

While I appreciate your measured response. That third paragraph is the left's view on free speech in a nutshell. Basically it boils down to not trusting, not wanting listeners to be able to draw their own conclusions. You don't like something specific, therefore it is automatically deemed to be dangerous. The only thing you didn;t do is take the final step and call for him to be censored/cancelled. What you described is arguably being done on an almost daily basis by accredited journalists on any number of topics. I mean, how many articles have we seen that carefully selects "experts" that happen to support, say the right for minors to consent to sex-change surgeries without consent of their parents?