[ryguytilidie]

>He has a 3 hour conversation with a guest where he talks at lengths about pretty much anything he wants to ask them about.

Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.

And anyone who disagrees with him, including the world's leading experts are stupid.

Then he has Alex Jones on to say provocative things to boost his audience.

But yes, we will call this open research, and not being a shock jock somehow...?

[fernandotakai]

>Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.

like jim gaffigan, adam curry, carrot top, beeple, steven pinker, ron white, snoop dog, gilbert gottfried, chuck palahniuk... i mean, i could go on and on.

it's like people don't even look at his guests.

[choward]

> Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.

It's the biggest story in the world right now and if affecting everyone. You expect him to have a 3 hour conversation and not talk about covid once? And despite what your echo chambers tell you he doesn't only talk about covid.

[YEwSdObPQT]

> Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.

Like every other TV show, news papers, radio program because it has been a persistent feature of our lives for almost 2 years now. How is this a criticism?

> And anyone who disagrees with him, including the world's leading experts are stupid.

I doubt he said this. I've seen clips where he has questioned orthodoxy surrounding things like mask mandates and vaccine mandates and the effectiveness therein. But I doubt he called people straight out of stupid because they disagree with him.

> Then he has Alex Jones on to say provocative things to boost his audience.

And? Are you saying he should get boring people on his show? That he shouldn't have popular people on there?

Alex Jones was made notorious because of his removal from many social media platforms.

Many people find Alex Jones entertaining. That doesn't mean they agree with his views. I find Alex Jones entertaining but I think many of his views are ridiculous.

> But yes, we will call this open research, and not being a shock jock somehow..

I didn't say it was open research. I was disputing the fact he is a shock jock. A shock jock goes out of their way to be controversial. Think Howard Stern in the 90s. Joe Rogan isn't isn't that.

The controversy around Joe Rogan is drummed up by his competition (tradition news and media) to ironically get views (the thing you were complaining about by him having Alex Jones on the show).

[blisterpeanuts]

I have never listened to Rogan until a few days ago when this whole Spotify controversy popped up on my radar. Today I listened to an interview with a former Navy SEAL that had nothing to do with controversial issues, vaccines, etc. It was an interesting conversation about life, about learning to deal with balancing family and work (especially when your line of work involved heavy travel and military engagement in foreign lands). Didn't seem "alex jones"-like at all. Maybe best to just pick and choose which topics interest you, and ignore the controversies?