The Joe Rogan Experience
Shares rank 11 of 42 podcasts by recommenders
People recommend it for entertaining, long-form conversations with interesting guests. Critics say he rarely challenges guests and lets misinformation go unchecked.
People recommend it for entertaining, long-form conversations with interesting guests. Critics say he rarely challenges guests and lets misinformation go unchecked.
26 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 15
- approval share
- 42%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Interesting, insightful guests
“It's just entertainment. I learned about an interesting person I'd never heard of before, and had fun listening”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Successful Psilocybin Treatment of Alzheimer” “it's actually quite insightful and interesting”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “Jensen Huang on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]” “have found many of his guests interesting”
Comment from 1 Sep 2026 in “Fastpotify” Entertaining, fun to listen
“It's just entertainment. I learned about an interesting person I'd never heard of before, and had fun listening”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Successful Psilocybin Treatment of Alzheimer” “I've heard that he has a nice podcast.”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Rarely challenges guests on claims
“he's routinely proven that he's unwilling to press people on real concrete issues”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “How we lost communication to entertainment” “who seem to come into every interview with just the right amount of ignorance”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition” “Joe Rogan regularly has people on his show that he just lets lie to his face”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “How we lost communication to entertainment” Spreads misleading medical claims
“totally out of their depth when interviewed about covid on the Joe Rogan podcast or similar”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news” “This is the level of information that people are using to make these decisions”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled” Misrepresents research and sources
“their signature move is to strip this literature of context, reintroduce a strawman”
Comment from 27 Dec 2025 in “Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations” “says things about it that are the exact opposite of what is written in the article”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “How we lost communication to entertainment”
Other podcasts people recommend
The four most recommended other podcasts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 29 | 8 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Oxide and Friends | 26 | 3 | 90% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Acquired podcast | 25 | 0 | 100% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Behind the Bastards podcast | 18 | 1 | 95% | 11 | — | Approved |
| The Joe Rogan ExperienceThis page | 11 | 15 | 42% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
27 of the 28 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Jon Stewart is doing the same thing Joe Rogan did.”
“massively biased and uninformed podcasters”
“have found many of his guests interesting”
“one of the few interesting things I've learn from the rogan podcast”
“Grok seems to be the Joe Rogan podcasts of LLMs.”
“I've heard that he has a nice podcast.”
“who seem to come into every interview with just the right amount of ignorance”
“Science denying is big business.”
“It's just entertainment. I learned about an interesting person I'd never heard of before, and had fun listening”
“Joe Rogan is an idiot, I don't watch his stuff anymore”
“And look what else that podcast has brought us.”
“Every episode I've ever stumbled upon he "fact checks" multiple things via their sponsor”
“choose masking/testing for moments away from YouTube and Joe Rogan”
“totally out of their depth when interviewed about covid on the Joe Rogan podcast or similar”
“This is the level of information that people are using to make these decisions”
“says things about it that are the exact opposite of what is written in the article”
“I agree with some - Friedman, Rogan, Shapiro”
“Joe Rogan regularly has people on his show that he just lets lie to his face”
“he's routinely proven that he's unwilling to press people on real concrete issues”
“it’s hard for someone to keep to their coached media narrative for three and a half hours”
“their signature move is to strip this literature of context, reintroduce a strawman”
“his pet theory on natural selection / evolution”
“is a disrespectful waste of people’s time”
“Anyone who is interested in AI and how Jensen thinks should listen to this.”
“it's actually quite insightful and interesting”
“feel like since Covid Joe Rogan sounds like a broken record”
“This is also Rogan's chief problem as a podcaster, isn't it?”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.