The Joe Rogan Experience

Serious lack of Joey "Coco" Diaz.

I listened to him on The Nerdist and on something else WTF maybe, and he really wasn't what I expected. So I checked out the episode of his podcast with Brian Cox which was awesome. I can't imagine listening to him regularly because he seems to really do a lot of obscure comedians I don't know and a lot of MMA stuff but I am staying subscribed anyway.

lanx_sl said:

I've listened to hundreds of JRE, as anyone that workouts knows JRE delivers on material. However since i have near zero interest in MMA (aside from ronda rousey, cuz of the podcast), these MMA guests and recently theres a special MMA edition where they comment on fights as well, i pretty much skip. Most of the MMA guys are just "i grapple him, then he grapples me, for hours and hours, so i just skip those podcasts"

Anyone tried branching out from the JRE with guests?

I think one of the musts, is Dan Carlin

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Some of the fight companion casts are actually pretty funny even if you aren't watching the fight or into MMA just because Brendon Shaub and Bryan Callen get some good trolling in and Joe sometimes falls for it.

Aside from the most important guest to branch out to which you mentioned, Dan Carlin (arguably the best podcaster out there), Bert Kreischer has his own cast called Bertcast where he recently interviewed Peter Jackson, Bill Burr's Monday Morning podcast is hilarious.

I don't subscribe to the podcast, but I have listened to quite a few of them. His conversations with Sam Harris are great.

I like Joe's podcast, but I don't listen to every single one of them. Sometimes that Brian kid is so retarded and awkward it's hard to listen to.

The first Kevin Pereira episode was one of the most entertaining. I think I found the right one on youtube:

Tortfeasor_sl said:

I like Joe's podcast, but I don't listen to every single one of them. Sometimes that Brian kid is so retarded and awkward it's hard to listen to.

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The last episode with Bert Kresicher where he was arguing over the white and gold/blue and black dress bullshit with Jamie... how flustered he got-- like a 13 year old throwing a tantrum in Ventrilo or something. He's 40 years old if you could believe that.

i was on a big kick listening to every thing joe put out and a bunch of shows on brian's network for a few years, but after joe and brian had a little tiff
and he stopped having him on certain shows, i stopped listening.
Brian is a retard but he did a lot of stuff that is funny to hear about. Joe gathers up maybe 1 new story a month and rehashes it a dozen times with different people.

I used to like Rogan a whole lot more but in recent history he has become an old man. Where once he was open minded and scalding everyone who wasn't, he has now turned into the knowitall old dude nobody likes. Especially his MMA commentary on the UFC broadcasts has become almost unbearable to watch & listen to, since he is getting more and more biased and subjective, and he likes to "have the back of his friends" which is a good thing for his friends, unless you are Brendan Schaub then I guess you are fair game, but also becomes increasingly harder as he "gets to know" more and more people in the scene.

His standup has become quite stale, but I still like it.

His podcasts have also become less and less fun to listen to. The biggest problem is that he is quite repetitive, especially for loyal listeners, since he likes to recycle the same material over and over again. He has some special guests he will always reinvite and they will basically talk about the same thing EVERY single time. Like Steven Rinella with his hunting stuff (I love MeatEater, but on the podcasts they both are the most boring people ever) or when he invites MMA guests he will always harp on the same issues.

And I guess by now we ALL know that he's ONNIT (get it? ). I really liked it a whole lot more when they were still being sponsored by Fleshlight, and there would always be a lot of fun in the commercial section of the podcasts, whereas today it is 100% self promotion for his silly website (There are hundreds of websites out there that sell the exactly same stuff so there really is nothing special about Onnit).

At least he got over himself a tiny bit, and stops talking every single one of his guests into making his own podcast.

Listened to JRE for quite a while. This podcast single handily kick-started my weight loss. Introduced me to Dave Asprey (I know I know) as well as just his general fitness schtick, BJJ, and wellness eventually makes you want to go work out and do better for yourself. Outside of that, good comedic guests like Diaz and any episode with Shane Smith from Vice is great.

I stopped listening a while back because...something annoyed me about Joe. I don't quite remember. Basically, I think he was on a streak of being wrong about stuff but still defending himself to the death.

I usually only listen to it if I am doing something at work that doesn't require concentration, but I purposely avoid the ones where he talks to car guys, hunting guys, or professional podcasters. I generally find comedians to be his best guests as long as they are friends with joe, if not they usually end up playing the sycophant (which is what other proffessional podcasters tend to do) or trying to sound way smarter than they are. I also like when he interviews legit scientists like Neil Tyson DeGrasse, Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock (journalist?), Randal Carlson, etc.

Ubiquitrips_sl said:

I stopped listening a while back because...something annoyed me about Joe. I don't quite remember. Basically, I think he was on a streak of being wrong about stuff but still defending himself to the death.

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Well he definitely kept insisting bulletproof coffee worked, when all of his fans kept telling him how much of a conman Dave Asprey was, and finally when he had to admit the truth he kind of glossed over it. It kind of bothers me he's still pushing Alpha Brain on his ads since that's most likely Snake Oil and still hasn't had a legitimate study to prove it's anything more than a placebo.

He can get really testy at odd times, in the recent podcast with Billy Corben he basically scolded Billy for "speculating" on what it's like to raise kids because he doesn't have one, during their retarded nurture vs. nature argument, and ended up agreeing with him in the end.

But I agree with you in that the podcast is great for inspiring you to improve yourself, especially the episodes with Duncan. I couldn't stand his voice at first, but damn is that one positive dude.