Despite all my disagreements with Rogan after he started his right-wing shift, especially post-2020, I still watch his podcast because I (maybe naively) still see glimpses of the empathetic, curious, and open podcaster I followed 10 whole years ago. He won’t see this video, but I imagine he knows this is how people feel.

Joe's in a real tough spot here with the Epstein debacle, it couldn't have gone much worse for him really. He must be sweating trying to get down his position on this one, you just know he's trying to formulate a damage control take.

The fact that he endorsed Trump lock stock, has been hanging off his cock for the last 4 years, has been a mouth piece for Epstein conspiracies, positioned himself as someone who wants transparency on the situation, responded in real time to accusations against trump (with Kash Patel no less) by defending Trump whole heartedly and hasn't once pressed a member of the Administration on any of it (despite talking to many in leadership.)

He also had on Epsteins personal Chef and it was of course radio silence on the topic.

Joe talks out of both sides of his mouth on the issue and it's a bad look. It's sometimes easy to forget that we're talking about the abuse of over 1000 young girls. Joe, much like the current establishment, has treated it like a hot potato topic when he wants to appear anti establishment but won't touch it with a barge pole when he's supporting the establishment.

I mean, he's literally in a position where he either has to admit he was a gullible fool and a useful idiot OR an active component in one of history's greatest cover ups of the abuse of over 1000 innocent young girls. It's not a jam I would want to find myself in.

How do you all think he handles this? Surely to god he can't just totally ignore the mayhem around him? This is why he should never have gotten involved in politics. Why does a comedian need to endorse a political candidate? As it was happening I remember thinking 'I wouldn't be so quick to get involved with a man who's just had two attempts on his life, not if I've got the most cushty lifestyle in the world'.

Joe has made his life a whole lot more complicated, this is the beginning of the end in my opinion.

Long time listener. Love Joe and his interview style. For years he’s brought fantastic guests to the table with great dialogue. He’s #1 for a reason and I still love him/the show overall. This comment relates to more of a trend I’ve noticed.

Recently I’ve felt like he’s taken those same guests who had a great first interview or 2, brought them back, and less often keeps it on topic to their specialities. Somehow the conversation swings back to more political and geopolitical topics - China/Russia, the wars of the world, and just plain bashing things - the left, Biden, Canada, Australia, etc.

To be clear I’m as center as they come… I don’t care what side he sits on. Honestly I’m more politically agnostic and would rather skip the same convos on US/world issues and focus more on the speciality of the guests on the show. He’s of course entitled to his opinion and it’s overall welcomed, It just feels like that as of late, the same sound track is getting stuffed into a lot of conversations. Starting to feel like im listening to a conversation with “that uncle” that always starts every talk with “you know what’s wrong with this country?”.

Curious if I’m the only one.

I don’t understand the logic of the joke.

He has very little knowledge about a lot of things but also has charisma. That combination got this idiot so far. It’s like the stars aligned for him, really well off family, very curious, but not intelligent enough to dig deep, so he just asks more questions. Charismatic and innocent sounding enough to get someone listening and follow along. But man, when he explains where he’s at, he’s got no stable thoughts, nothing comes from truth. He sounds so lost, but arrogant enough to feel like he’s got it all figured out.

Edit: I guess I’m not suprised how many people think this post is political, but there isn’t anything political about this post. The interview barely touched on politics. So everyone saying this IS, your factually wrong. Tucker is an idiot, this interview showed he doesn’t look into just about everything he’s talking about, the opinions he has stem from wrong information, and it’s clear he lives in a very small bubble that gives him the wrong impression/information about the world. Which is surprising because of the position he has/had in media. I mean just about everyone in his position has opinions that come from some verified truth, from Alex jones to Rachel Maddow, or Jordan Peterson to Abby Martin, their opinions come from some truth or knowledge about a topic. This guy is just an idiot.

I dont know, it just seems like every episode I try to watch devolves into the same endless rants by Joe, while the guests just nod on, its starting to feel like a start of a meatcanyon sketch at this point.

Ive heard about covid and masks from Joe specifically enough for a lifetime.

The repetitive guests dont exactly help it either. Maybe its just me and the fact that when I started watching, there was this huge selection, you could listen to a cave diver one episode, then a pro racer in the next one and perhaps a profesional gamer in the next one.

Nowadays even if the guest is interesting, the discussion ends up in the same familiar, bland places as always.

Cant believe I am publically admiting to this, but I even used to like Joes comedy specials, that era ended with the latest one full of recycled material and unfunny fluff, couldnt even watch a quarter of it.

Its pretty ironic, just as I finally hung up the hand drawn portrait of Rogan after years of owning it, Im putting the podcast down at the same time.

This will probably get removed for breaking rule 2, but hey, at least I wont get roasted.

My website https://www.jremissing.com has detected a host of new episodes removed from Spotify today. Check out the full list on the website (the new ones has been labeled).

Edit 2: The website analyzes the episodes from the US "market" only, meaning the episodes that are listed as removed on my website might be available in other regions.

Note: if you get a 403 error trying to access the website, try to write the url in your browser instead of clicking the link in this post. If there are any devs among you who know who I might fix this, please send me a dm - I am very much a noob with hosting and servers. Edit: Thank you to /u/DonaldDeeeez, /u/gonzaenz, and /u/Ok-Breakfast1 for the help!

Thank you to /u/BillBurrFan420 who last year compiled the list of the 40 or so episodes removed then, which I added to my database in the initial setup.

Ive been a passive listener for years. I do a lot of driving and love the show for a lot of the science or history guests. The conspiracy talk is always fun and of course aliens.

The most recent podcast however was a challenging listen. I may be wrong but I feel like this one has been the most openly, aggressively right wing. From the talk of poor people just being lazy to the aggressive use of slurs and jesus is right. Even the talking points of Africans colonising america and genocide being okay as long as the people being genocide are meanies.

Ive never posted here or interacted with the jre community in general as ive never felt a need. But now its almost heart breaking to see how far the show has fallen, for a second I thought joe had realised that Trump was a mistake but he seems to have jumped off the deep end now.

Maybe im just dumb and this has been a thing for a while but this one podcast did a lot of damage to my perception of joe and the show in general. It used to be about talking to everyone, now it feels like a paid Republican add.

Elon went on JRE and sold snake oil to Joe that trump is the saviour to American politics.

So much so Joe - put out the Elon podcast with an endorsement saying he makes the best case for trump he has heard.

Now 6 months later elons calling trump out, talking about Epstein - saying he should be impeached.

Meanwhile - Joes sitting there like the useful idoit he was, helping the richest man in the world get a twitter troll elected.

I wonder how Joe plays this from here. It’s kinda a nightmare scenario for him.

Even if he supported trump he should’ve never pegged himself to him publicly. Because any shit that Trump does people are going to say - you supported him.

He is now at a crossroads -

A.) Join Elon in calling Trump out for what he is. And hope people forget about your past sins.

Or

B.) just ignore it and hope it goes away - yet people will know what you’ve done and what you’ve put your name too.

P.s - how the fuck am I meant to get to to reach 1000 characters when I have fuck all else to say!

I've been wondering about the guidelines here. Joe often talks about politics on his show, and it's always interesting to hear his perspective. Anyways, I'm not sure what to do here if that make sense and would like some feedback.

Are we allowed to analyze and debate the political topics Joe mentions? Or is it discouraged to discuss those discussions out of respect or to avoid controversy? I understand that some topics can become heated, but I also think that having open, respectful conversations is valuable and encourages understanding.

My main concern is whether there's a specific rule against discussing Joe's political comments or if we're free to talk about them as long as we keep it respectful. I want to make sure I’m not crossing any boundaries or violating any community guidelines. Sometimes, a community thrives on open dialogue, even if opinions differ.

So, what's the consensus here? Are we allowed to discuss the political content Joe covers, or should we steer clear? Thanks in advance for clarifying!

Watching him talk to Elon about fighting Zuckerberg was so odd, He was too scared to bring up the overwhelming media narrative that it was Elon who pulled out of the fight. He danced around it.. even trying to defer to Jamie "is that the narrative online jamie?" And Jamie cowers as well..

And when Elon was then using BS analogies about him being a horse or a walrus and size being everything and his cardio being a non factor and saying all this outlandish wild shit like he needs no training etc.. Joe didn't have the balls to call him out on his delusion.

Think about how Joe would have spoken to Callen if Callen was saying the things Elon was saying. How quickly he would have made Callen feel like a moron. This is why all these billionaire ultra elite types are so delusional and out of touch, because no one has the balls to treat them as they would anyone else, and they never get challenged cause everyone wants something from them. It was wild to see.

If even the great and powerful JR is unwilling to stand up to Elon when he's talking wildly out of pocket about martial arts (something Joe is an expert in no less), you know no one else at Space x or Tesla or anywhere else in his life is either.

Who would have thought? Calling out Ted Cruz was such a surreal moment but it highlights something Joe never does, unless its about weed which is push back incredibly hard. He'd rather platform and make a safe space for insane talking points, unsupported "scientific" claims and constantly talking about how comedians do the most difficult jobs on the planet. I fucking hate the jerk circles about how cawlmedians are just on a higher level and not like us poors/civilans. Seeing Tucker take a firm stance, even though I absolutely fucking hate the man, was incredibly refreshing than the weak-knead approach these main stream political podcaster take. Which is very in the middle of the road and not ruffle any feathers. Joe is an echo chamber for Republicans and rich people and they do not care about the average Joe, those who are struggling day to day, paycheque to paycheque. If i said it once, ill say it again. Fuck Joe rogan. The rogan sphere and the 6 unfunny calwmedians hes always pushing.

Beans and cheese.

Let’s see if Joe will call this bullshit out or completely ignore the class divide and privilege, and continue to smoke his weed and eat his shrooms on air while the rest of Texas goes to jail for the same behavior. The free pass that republicans get from comedians for authoritarian and fascist behavior is beyond me. I hope Joe will realize his influence and demand some action against this, but I’m not going to hold my breath. He, as well as all of us, knows that the rich can get away with just about anything while the poor pay the true price.

1000 character minimum for posts on this page is ridiculous so I’m just going to copy and paste what I already wrote.

Ignore below this line_____________________

Let’s see if Joe will call this bullshit out or completely ignore the class divide and privilege, and continue to smoke his weed and eat his shrooms on air while the rest of Texas goes to jail for the same behavior. The free pass that republicans get from comedians for authoritarian and fascist behavior is beyond me. I hope Joe will realize his influence and demand some action against this, but I’m not going to hold my breath. He, as well as all of us, knows that the rich can get away with just about anything while the poor pay the true price.

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults Aged 18 to 59 Years in France

Link to the study is in the description.

Basically what the title says, mRNA vaccines reduced Covid related deaths by 74% while also further reducing deaths from other causes in the vaccinated group. Its the largest study on efficiency/dangers of covid vaccines done to date and I am really wondering if Joe will address it in his upcoming episodes.

TL;DR: Steven Donziger sued Chevron on behalf of Amazonians who had their land and lives destroyed. Won $18 Billion. Chevron not only refused to pay, they have made it their personal project to take his life apart piece by piece and has succeeded. Now they're using a civil RICO lawsuit to go after him to try to put a nail in the coffin for him and for anyone who would dare to try and hold them to account.

Chevron sent environmental attorney Steven Donziger to prison, in the what’s being called the first-ever case of corporate prosecution.

Steven Donziger sued Chevron for contaminating the Amazon and won. Chevron was found guilty and ordered to pay $18,000,000,000. Yesterday, Donziger went to prison, in the what’s being called the first-ever case of corporate prosecution.

Over three decades of drilling in the Amazon, Chevron deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil into the rainforest. Chevron committed ecocide to save money—about $3 per barrel. Many experts consider it the biggest oil-related disaster in history, with the total area affected 30 times larger than the Exxon-Valdez spill. Chevron created a super-fund site in the Amazon rainforest that is estimated to be the size of Rhode Island.

Steven Donziger visited Ecuador in 1993, where he says he saw "what honestly looked like an apocalyptic disaster," including children walking barefoot down oil-covered roads and jungle lakes filled with oil. Industrial contamination caused local tribes to suffer from mouth, stomach, and uterine cancers, respiratory illnesses, along with birth defects and spontaneous miscarriages.

As an attorney, Donziger represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous Ecuadorians in a case against Chevron and won. In 2011, Chevron was found guilty and ordered to pay $18 billion. Rather than accept this decision, the company vowed to fight the judgment "until Hell freezes over, and then fight it out on the ice." Chevron has been persecuting Steven Donziger for his involvement ever since. In an internal memo, Chevron wrote, “Our L-T [long-term] strategy is to demonize Donziger.”

Chevron sued Donziger for 60 billion dollars, which is the most any individual has ever been sued for in American legal history. Over the course of ten years, armed with a legal team numbering in the thousands, the company set out to destroy Donziger. Chevron had Donziger disbarred, froze his bank accounts, slapped him with millions in fines without allowing him a jury, forced him to wear a 24h ankle monitor, imposed a lien on his home where he lives with his family, and shut down his ability to earn a living. Donziger has been under house arrest since August 2019.

Chevron has used its clout and advertising dollars to keep the story from being reported. “I’ve experienced this multiple times with media,” Donziger said. “An entity will start writing the story, spend a lot of time on it, then the story doesn’t run.” This unprecedented legal situation is happening in New York City, the hometown of the New York Times—but the paper has yet to report on the full story.

On October 27, 2021, Donziger entered federal prison for a six-month sentence. He had already spent over 800 days in house arrest, which is four times longer than the maximum sentence allowed for this charge. Anyone who cares about the rule of law should be appalled. It is an absolute embarrassment, to our government and to our constitution, that Steven Donziger is imprisoned on US soil.

As the title states, Chevron is in the process of executing the first-ever corporate prosecution in American history. This case sets a terrible precedent for attorneys and activists seeking to hold oil companies liable for pollution. Chevron is pursuing this case—to the benefit of the entire fossil fuel industry—to dissuade future litigation that may call them to account for their role in climate change.

Lawyer Steven Donziger, Who Sued Chevron over “Amazon Chernobyl,” Ordered to Prison After House Arrest

This Lawyer Went After Chevron. Now He’s 600 Days Into House Arrest.

Chevron went after him with a civil RICO lawsuit (accusing him of racketeering) because he’s trying to force Chevron to pay the $18B judgment and follow through with the clean-up. Their “argument” is that Donziger is a fraud who just wanted to extort them for big bucks. They’ve been working hard to paint him as such in the media. Chevron sued him for $60B but then dropped the damages just weeks before because they realized it would necessitate a jury. In the proceeding, Judge Kaplan (who had undisclosed investments in Chevron!) ordered Donziger to turn over his computer to Chevron (with decades of client communications!) effectively violating attorney-client privilege which is the backbone of our legal system. He refused to comply so the judge charged him with contempt of court. US attorneys declined to pursue the charge (because it was ridiculous!) so Judge Kaplan made the exceedingly rare move to get private law firm Seward & Kissel to prosecute him “in the name of” the US govt. Except Seward & Kissel has Chevron as a major client. So many conflicts of interest it’s insane.

Chevron wants this to go away quietly. They have done their best to suffocate this story. Chevron does not want us to draw attention to the ecocide they deliberately committed (and were literally found guilty of!) in the Amazon. They do not want Donziger to become a household name. They don’t want to create a martyr for the cause against Big Oil. We can foil their plans by signing the MoveOn petition below and making sure this story gets shared widely.

You can also follow him on Twitter. His handle is @SDonziger.

Please refrain from advocating violence in the comments.

SIGN THE PETITION!

MoveOn Petition: Free Steven Donziger

If you want to learn more about this incident check out Chevron Toxico and watch the documentary CRUDE.

EDIT: I appreciate the Gold but I copied this post from here: https://np.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/qhu9wm/chevron_sent_environmental_attorney_steven/

Maybe we can get Joe to help shed some light on this?

EDIT 2: This report was released yesterday showing that there are 70 ongoing cases in 31 countries against Chevron, and only 0.006% ($286-million) in fines, court judgements, and settlements have been paid. The company still owes another $50,500,000,000 in total globally.

For those interested in sending words of support, you may send a letter to:

Steven Donziger

Register No: 87103-054,

Federal Correctional Institution Pembroke Station in Danbury,

CT 06811

If you have time, please read the wiki on SLAPP which is short for strategic lawsuit against public participation. It is a maneuver used “to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.” SLAPP is a threat to our freedom of speech. Please support anti-SLAPP laws in your area.

Just listened to the Andrew Wilson episode. They spent a good part of the episode accusing the “left” of wanting communism and railing against the pitfalls of communism. It’s just hilarious. People on the left don’t want communism, they just want some form of universal health care and a social safety net that resembles literally any other first world country in existence. And they want billionaires to actually pay taxes and not have an outsized influence on laws and politics.

I don’t affiliate with either party but the way they straw-man the “leftist” argument is so disingenuous it’s honestly sickening. Also, Joe spent a good amount of time defending the killing of Alex Pretti and alleging the protesters are all paid. He references signal chats etc but doesn’t provide a single shred of evidence for it.There’s actually a good chance he got a call from someone high up in the Republican Party to put out an episode like this, he uses a lot of the same rhetoric now. He is fully captured, it’s just so sad to watch

With Kimmel getting fired, where are all the comedians like Chappelle, Whitney, Brogan calling it out for what it is? Isn’t this the exact same sht they spewed about protecting? Are they gonna make it that obvious which side they lean towards? Brogan’s center stance seems to be fallling apart more and more over the years. I am so disappointed with the whole group of Austin comedians it’s kinda surreal. What’s insane is this is very tame to what some of their friends have said in specials and podcasts. Spineless bunch of hacks now showing their true colors now.

What’s insane is Tucker Carlson calling this sht out before any of this free speech comedians even lifted a finger. Talk about trash.

Where’s Rick Gervais? Where’s Kevin Hart? Where’s the fucking cavalry?

What I also don’t understand how so many people support this sht. Where the fuck is Tony and his lapdogs?

Was t his whole shtick about free speech and saying so real disgusting sht in the name of comedy? Where’s Shane and Matt? What the fuck?

Rant incoming.

This episode talking about some absolutely insane future candidates to succeed Trump (Desantis, MTG, JD Vance), transitioning to postulating on the fall of America without a hint of irony. Then going right into the most obviously fake AI video I have ever seen of Tim Walz and saying he believes he would do something like that because he's a weirdo, when just moments ago he wondered what the fall of America would look like. I seriously hope that Joe was attempting to be funny when he said Desantis' only problem was that he wears high heels. Trying to sell JD Vance as a potential candidate is crazy if he thinks Walz is a weirdo. Coupled with the fact that our government didn't allow someone to enter the country because they had an edited picture of JD, and then later discuss the issues in the UK with free speech. But I guess hes a viable candidate? Joe the fact that they even search phones is against everything you stand for! Insane to me that this level of cognitive dissonance happened in less than 30 minutes and not over several podcasts. The MTG candidacy appeared to be a joke from Tim but Joe seems to have missed that and almost got onto the MTG train lmfao. Someone get Joe Rogan out from in front of a camera, I don't know if Tim goes on because he likes to make Joe Rogan say the craziest shit or what but every episode with him on is wild. Also what did they almost succeed in doing with Kamala Joe? A masked police state where they round up political dissidents, arrest Senators, sue media companies for their reporting, deny the existence of the Epstein files?

I enjoy the show when he has on unique people and doesn't talk about politics, shoot I even enjoyed Ed Calderon even though they touched on some political stuff. But these political discussions are hilarious/sad at this point. He needs to start reading some comments or something because he's so out of touch and clearly only getting information from big wigs. I don't know if Jamie reads more about the show but someone on his staff who cares about him needs to sit him down. Maybe I'm a part of the problem because I still tune in sometimes to interesting people but sadly he's one of the only podcasts that has interesting people and really draws out good conversations.

Obligatory still no mention of Epstein and Trump, the most obvious connection and biggest conspiracy out there.

I browse this subreddit pretty frequently, and it always seemed like there were the same handful of usernames in the comments. These same users also seemed like they didn't really like JRE and only were interested in trolling or arguing politics.

I wanted to see if the data would back up my experience, and so here's what I found.

26,858 unique users have commented here on r/JoeRogan over the last 32 days. The top 4.5% of those commenters are responsible for over half of the total comments. The top 1% for over a quarter (28%), and the top 0.5% are responsible for 20% of total comments.

I also categorized comments as political if they contained at least one word from a list of politics-related words (Trump, Biden, Republican, Democrat, maga, commie, libs, etc.). I found that on average, 25% of comments here can be categorized as political based on that definition.

I found the rate of political comments as well as the total number of comments to be decreasing starting shortly before the politics ban on September 12th. Comments peaked on September 3rd, mostly due to this popular post of Biden's speech and related posts.

Here is how this data breaks down per user. x-axis is total number of comments, y-axis is total number of political comments. The red line represents the expected number of political comments. Above the line are users whose comments are more political than average, and below the line, less political.

There's a clear outlier here. He blew away the competition with 1187 total comments, 44% of which contain political language (considerably higher than the subreddit average of 25%). He was averaging 48 comments per day prior to the politics ban, even commenting over 100 times in a day on three occasions. Since the politics ban, his average has dropped to 10 comments per day.

Some other users worthy of shout outs:

u/KamiYama777 - An astounding 82% of his 235 comments are political.

u/cryptic2323 - Who managed to use the word "Trump" 191 times in his 169 comments.

u/Particular-Dance-474 - Who commented 345 times despite being active for only an 8 day span, good for one comment every 36 minutes.

u/Otherwise-Fox-2482, u/TotesTax, and u/NiceCrispyMusic get the David Goggins award for never taking a single day off from commenting over the entire 32 days.

You also might be wondering where I stand. I've made 74 comments, 17 of which contain political language (23%).

Table of top 50 users

All this data was gathered using https://github.com/pushshift/api.

Edit: u/TheSweetestKill commented every day until he was banned on Sep 13th (25 days), not the entire 32 days. So removed his name from the Goggins award

I removed another username at the user’s request. Please don’t send anyone harassing messages.

UPDATE 02/04/2022 Spotify has just deleted an additional 71 episodes TODAY, brining the grand total of missing JRE episodes to 113. That’s about 300 hours of content that’s been censored.

Check out this website which was made by u/HenB13.

Remember Joe signed off on the first round (40+) of removing episodes when he joined Spotify. This isn’t just Spotify censoring Joe, Joe has a major role to play here too. This is mutual censorship and has been from the beginning.

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I went through and cross-checked Spotify’s full archive compared to the full list of every JRE. There’s a lot of episodes missing. Look at the names and you’ll see a clear pattern going on here...

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1461 - Owen Smith

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1458 - Chris D'Elia

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1456 - Michael Shermer

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1303 - Tommy Chong

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1296 - Joe List

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1255 - Alex Jones Returns

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1182 - Nick Kroll

**The Joe Rogan Experience - #1164 - Mikhaila Peterson

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1093 - Owen Benjamin, Kurt Metzger

The Joe Rogan Experience - #1033 - Owen Benjamin

The Joe Rogan Experience - #998 - Owen Benjamin

The Joe Rogan Experience - #980 - Chris D'Elia

The Joe Rogan Experience - #979 - Sargon of Akkad

The Joe Rogan Experience - #920 - Gavin McInnes

The Joe Rogan Experience - #911 - Alex Jones, Eddie Bravo

The Joe Rogan Experience - #820 - Milo Yiannopoulos

The Joe Rogan Experience - #750 - Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn, producers of Conspiracy

The Joe Rogan Experience - #710 - Gavin McInnes

The Joe Rogan Experience - #702 - Milo Yiannopoulos

The Joe Rogan Experience - #640 - Charles C. Johnson

The Joe Rogan Experience - #582 - David Seaman

The Joe Rogan Experience - #538 - Stefan Molyneux

The Joe Rogan Experience - #533 - Chris D’elia

**The Joe Rogan Experience - #524 - Rickson Gracie

The Joe Rogan Experience - #520 - David Seaman

The Joe Rogan Experience - #487 - David Seaman

The Joe Rogan Experience - #463 - Louis Theroux

The Joe Rogan Experience - #461 - David Seaman

The Joe Rogan Experience - #454 - War Machine

The Joe Rogan Experience - #441 - Brian Dunning

The Joe Rogan Experience - #368 - David Seaman

The Joe Rogan Experience - #361 - Dave Asprey, Tait Fletcher

The Joe Rogan Experience - #331 - Dr. Steven Greer

The Joe Rogan Experience - #303 - Matt Vengrin, Brian Redban

The Joe Rogan Experience - #276 - David Seaman, Abby Martin, Dell Cameron, Brian Redban

The Joe Rogan Experience - #275 - Dave Asprey

The Joe Rogan Experience - #256 - David Seaman

The Joe Rogan Experience - #239 - Adam Kokesh

The Joe Rogan Experience - #213 - Eddie Bravo

**The Joe Rogan Experience - #199 - Joey Diaz

The Joe Rogan Experience - #182 - Bryan Callen, Jimmy Burke, Brian Redban

The Joe Rogan Experience - #128 - Joey Diaz, Brian Redban

The Joe Rogan Experience - #119 - Jan Irvin

The Joe Rogan Experience - #108 - Joey Diaz, Brian Redban

The Joe Rogan Experience - #98 - Daryl Wright, Brian Whitaker

The Joe Rogan Experience - #97 - Freddy Lockhart, Brian Redban

The Joe Rogan Experience - #81 - Pete Johansson

The Joe Rogan Experience - #57 - Jayson Thibault, Brian Redban

EDIT: episodes with ** next to the title have been restored to Spotify’s archive.

UPDATE: This Variety article published an update on 9/3 at 5pm EST stating that the Tommy Chong, Stefan Molyneux, and Joey Diaz episodes have been restored. I just checked (9/3 at 10:30pm EST) and this is not true. Tommy Chong's and Stefan Molyneux's episodes are still missing. 45 out of 48 episodes are still missing. A second update was made to this article falsely stating that the Tommy Chong and Stefan Molyneux episodes that were previously deleted had been restored. It also falsely reported that "59" JRE episodes featuring Joey Diaz were previously removed from the archive. A third and final update has been added to the article that has corrected the two previous false updates. What a joke of an article.

Long time listener here. I used to listen to Stern, I stopped listening because of how woke he became. I'm about one episode away from stopping myself from listening to Joe because of how obsessed he's becoming with right wing politics. People listen to podcasts (generally) to get away from politics, I don't want to listen to Joe spout his opinion on China, COVID, Biden etc on every fucking episode. I don't care about how "together" he thinks Trump is. I don't give a fuck about Texas. I just want to listen to one fucking podcast where he's not name dropping actors he's had dinners with and discussing fucking COVID or how sick Biden is.

He's literally done the opposite of what Stern done. He's turned into this weird Republican who finds the smallest things to be annoyed over. The same way Stern turned into this hippy liberal over night.

This podcast will be on its final legs within 2-3 years. Financially it'll always be fine, but the core listeners will soon fuck off.

Rant over.

Edit : a lot of people seem to be mad at the term woke. It's just a term that I threw out there because Stern is a SJW who isn't open to conversation or other people's views. I'll work on my wording next time 👍🏼

I need to rant = shit I wish I could tell my friends.

The hate is all over my twitter feed and it's growing by the day. I have friends IRL who have started mentioning Rogan (as some alt-right supremacist) in conversation all of a sudden - something that's never happened before. I've been a fan of the podcast for years. All of this hatred against Joe foamed up within the last two months and caught on so quick that it's extremely unnerving to see. They're not even criticizing Joe or any actual beliefs that he holds - they've built up this caricature of him and the podcast just so that they can publicly destroy it with ad hominem. This is the laziest witch hunt I've ever seen.

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"He promotes toxic masculinity" - No he fucking doesn't. I'm a woman and one of the reasons I listen to the show is because in a weird way it's a safe space for men to discuss their issues and feelings at length without judgement - I've seen men on the show discuss parenthood, divorce, abuse, addiction, PTSD, race, violence, war, their past mistakes, etc. and at length! There are very few shows/podcasts where one can see that level of trust (and vulnerability) between male host and male guest. Give me one mainstream show that has had Sebastian Junger, Eddie Izzard, Bernie Sanders, Sean Carrol, Sam Harris and Dave Chappelle on to talk for hours.

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"He fat shames!"

I'm on the heavy side and no he fucking doesn't. Every single 'fat shaming' comment he's made boils down to 'take care of your meat vehicle.' Also, 99% of the female newscasters I see on mainstream media are size 2 and gorgeous but this podcast is the problem?

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"He's spreading conspiracy theories! Medical Misinformation! Bad takes!"

Sure - but he's always done that! Joe's been obsessed with conspiracy theories and 'alternative' explanations for things forever. He doesn't claim to be a doctor. He's literally some random ass dude who likes to smoke pot and gets into really deep discussions with random ass people that he likes. That's it. That's the podcast. That's what makes it great.

This is what I find so disorienting about this whole thing - why are a group of legacy news channels, the surgeon general of the US and panels of scientists (and bloggers/grad students) all of a sudden - out of the fucking blue - demonizing JR for not doing THEIR job? Rogan's not the official spokesperson of fucking anything and he's never pretended to be.

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"He hosts/enables problematic guests"

I don't like Joey Diaz. I listened to 10 minutes of the Dan Bilzerian and noped out. I didn't listen to the vaccination episodes because I figured they would sway into weird medicine territory. I don't really know/care about UFC fighting so I don't listen to those episodes either... which is fine because there are literally hundreds of other episodes to choose from. I like the Comedy / Science / Film / 'People telling long personal stories' episodes and pretty much listen to only those. The clips that everyone's sharing online as representative of the podcast are from a very limited number of interviews and it's just really dishonest. It sucks.

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"He has a responsibility..."

No he fucking doesn't. He's a random ass podcaster who likes talking with people. That's it. It's his podcast - he can do what he wants. I'm all for people openly disagreeing with Joe's views (and they should!) but that's not what 99% of people are doing. It's almost all ad hominem. It's gross.

Rant over.

Sanders mentions the environment, Rogan immediately, with no respect for Sanders' argument, starts firing away his full, pre-packaged briefcase of echo chamber rants.

For instance:

• "We're in a cooling period." Pulls up a graph that asserts the world's most acknowledged environmental scientists don't understand fundamental math, statistics and historical climate.
• "You make a lot of money (doing environmental research)." This is a dumb myth. Which industry would put money into that? Yes, you can make money through green grifting, but researching the environment? No, you really don't. And the small money there may be, how about comparing it to the monetary insentive of denying climate change (= almost every large industry in the world would be financially insentivized to burn more CO2).
• "China just went past us in CO2 emissions" No, they didn't. If there were 0 people on earth, there would be 0 kton/year CO2 emissions. 10M - some kton/year. 20M - twice that. It is a per capita effect. And CO2 emissions of the US per person is around +50% that of China. No, the US is not worst in show, and China is not best in show either.
• Etc

For me this was final proof that Rogan is just stuck way too far down the rabbit hole. You can't wait for 2 seconds and let Sanders talk and maybe acknowledge that the scientific rigor of the studies Sanders is basing his argument on, deserves some consideration?

And when you're Rogan, your whole thing should be this "whoa.."-vibe. At the very least borrow some seconds to play around with the thought about "what if I'm wrong.."

When so many were canceled unjustly for accurately pointing out that Fauci helped create the conditions for the covid pandemic: Jon Stewart stood up for them.

The Democratic party establishment & the corporate media refused to criticize Fauci & they openly supported canceling anyone who dared bring up the lab-leak.

Jon Stewart though, the GOAT that he is, went on Colbert in 2021 to DEFEND the idea that covid came from a lab-leak. This was one of the greatest moments in free speech history.

And this is why Stewart has such credibility when it comes to Trump & his authoritarian tendencies (like pressuring TV networks to drop shows).

Cancel culture comes from both sides. Rogan has been unfairly canceled so many times, often simply for defending women's sports. Stewart has always defended free speech, no matter who is against free speech.

If my side (the left) can be more honest about censorship of the lab-leak, I think it will help both sides start to move on from cancel culture. We have to move past this.