BND - The Joe Rogan Experience (podcast)

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The Joe Rogan Experience (podcast)

UNRATEDour grouping of the show
26claims in our motif index
34motifs they came up in

⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.

What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.

what it tells far more often than the other shows we follow, and what they tell that it never does; each motif colored by its genre, the layer of story it is

Archetypesa kind of person
Plotswhat happened
Beliefsa premise
Theorieswhat people think is behind it
Argumentsa move in an argument
⚪ left white, the smaller genres:
Valueshow things ought to be

motifs it tells far more often than the other shows we follow; the bar is how many times more often, by its share of its tellings against theirs

motifs told on the most other shows that never came up on this one; the bar is how many other shows told it

every motif its claims came up in, the most first: 34 in all

🎨 What kind of stories: its tellings by genre

the motifs its claims came up in, the most first; the bar is how many of its claims

the bar on the same scale as the first

the shows that tell the same motifs in much the same proportions, and the ones that least do; each colored by the show's lean, our loose grouping by reputation

leans left
center
leans right
not grouped by lean

the shows whose motifs overlap most with its own, whatever their lean; the bar is how alike (100%: the same motifs in the same proportions)

the shows with the least in common with it; the bar is how alike, on the same scale

its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs

2026-11-04 “Mainstream media networks are lying to the people.”
🧩 Lying media
2026-11-04 “The official COVID-19 narrative was a form of propaganda that people were pressured to conform to.”
🧩 Censorship
2026-10-31 “Bots and foreign actors amplify fabricated stories and AI photos to manipulate political narratives.”
🧩 AI breaking social trust 🧩 Misinformation spread 🧩 Disinformation campaign 🧩 Dead internet
2026-10-31 “Social media influencers post outrageous takes because being outrageous is profitable.”
🧩 Influencer bad behavior 🧩 Rage bait
2026-10-31 “Trump is unlikely to attack Iran before the midterm elections because Republicans and voters do not want war.”
🧩 Unpopular war
2026-10-31 “Iran destroyed Donald Trump's presidency.”
🧩 Unpopular war
2026-10-31 “Democrats are bringing illegal immigrants into the country to change the outcome of elections.”
🧩 Importing voters
2026-10-31 “The Democratic Party's policy is to leave the border wide open to use migration as a weapon.”
🧩 Importing voters
2026-10-31 “Democrats want to open borders and allow millions of unvetted people into the country.”
🧩 They're pouring in!
2026-10-31 “War with Iran is expected to break out right after the midterms.”
🧩 After the election
2026-10-30 “Democrats are leaving the party because it no longer represents their values.”
🧩 Losing the base 🧩 The party left me
2026-10-29 “Donald Trump used his office to enrich himself and his family through a crypto scheme.”
🧩 Kleptocracy 🧩 The family business
2026-10-29 “MAGA GOP support for Trump remains extremely high and has not declined.”
🧩 I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue
2026-10-29 “The Trump family's international business deals create a massive conflict of interest for the US president.”
🧩 The family business
2026-10-21 “Bots and social media are infested with fake stories and nonsense.”
🧩 Misinformation spread 🧩 Firehose of falsehood 🧩 Dead internet
2026-10-21 “The presidency is limited by a system of checks and balances like Congress and the Senate.”
🧩 Checks and balances
2026-10-16 “Meta has knowledge of the harm and addiction social media causes to children.”
🧩 Corporate accountability 🧩 They knew all along
2026-10-16 “Mexico's government is insanely corrupt, working with the cartels who pay it.”
🧩 Kleptocracy 🧩 Narco-state
2026-10-15 “Peer reviewers only see reports rather than actual data from pharmaceutical studies.”
🧩 Cherry-picked data
2026-10-15 “The CIA secretly promoted American modern art abroad as evidence of intellectual freedom against Soviet socialist realism.”
🧩 It was a CIA op
2026-10-15 “Modern Americans feel pressured to have an opinion on every political matter.”
🧩 Opinion on everything
2026-10-14 “Social media splits people apart because polarization is its business plan.”
🧩 Algorithmic bias distorts discourse 🧩 Blaming technology
2026-10-14 “Wealthy individuals and corporations use their influence to manipulate politicians and the system.”
🧩 Money in politics 🧩 Oligarchy
2026-10-14 “Trump's perceived closeness to Vladimir Putin does not play well with the American public.”
🧩 Manchurian candidate 🧩 Bromance
2026-10-14 “AI is causing a jobs apocalypse by bleeding away tens of thousands of jobs without a new social contract.”
🧩 Coming for your job 🧩 Nobody voted for this
2026-10-07 “Most people running for office do not act for the benefit of others.”
🧩 They're all crooks

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The Joe Rogan Experience (podcast)

✍️ Its signature

✍️ Tells more than others

🙈 Others tell, it doesn't

🧩 Its repertoire

🧩 Told most

🧩 And then

👯 Tells the most alike

👯 Most alike

🙃 Least alike

🎙️ Lately on the show