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by samstave 1757 days ago
I don't agree with you guys at all. I like Joe a lot - but I do not always agree with him, nor his guests - but here is why he is one of the best interviewers I have witnessed:

He doesnt talk over his guests - he never pontificates to them, and lets them have their piece...

Additionally - he is actually really well read, and has a great memory and can recall how things he had read in the past relate to the conversations at hand.

You put joe rogan up against literally any television "interviewer" in the history of television, and you will see they are all hacks. Soundbyte driven hacks.

Ill take joe over ANYONE on television today.

Also - there are far too many podcasts, and its great to have very interesting people on his show - where they talk openly about anything for 3 hours.

as opposed to a 1 minute sound byte on complex world affairs where reporters are interviewing reporters about what some other reporter said and then claiming that "experts" "officials" and "sources close to the matter" say... and then every single person on their cast is "Senior correspondent this or that" - with zero creds shown as to why they are senior...

News is FAKE.

At least the interviews on JRE are uncut, there is only ONE other staff member in the room whos only job is to switch cams and look up something if either the guest or joe have doubts about what they are saying.

I find it funny how people can bitch about someone if there is something they dont agree with, as if one must have a 100% ideological map to anything they watch/see/listen to or else its all 100% fake.