10 Joe Rogan Experience Guests That Didn't Live Up To Expectations

In the midst of the controversy of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' banning from several social media platforms, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience in 2019 with many expecting Rogan to grill the internet entrepreneur about censorship on the platform.

Joe has shown that he is more than willing to grill a guest when he chooses in the past. When conservative commentator Stephen Crowder appeared on the podcast in 2017, Joe engaged in a heated debate with Crowder regarding marijuana, consistently asking his guest tough questions to make him defend his viewpoints.

The interview with Dorsey, however, was nothing like that.

What followed was a good-natured discussion that never threatened to get into any serious questioning about Dorsey's actions as the head of the social media giant.

It is worth noting though, that Rogan has never claimed to be an investigative journalist or interviewer. He was under no obligation to grill Dorsey in the way that many commenters had hoped that he would. Despite this, Rogan did address the controversy surrounding the episode with a lengthy post on his Instagram account.

I had Jack Dorsey, the CEO of twitter on the podcast Friday and many people felt I didn’t grill him hard enough on twitter censoring right wing voices.My intention going into the podcast was to talk to him about that, but also to talk to him about the responsibilities that come with managing world wide conversation with a platform that no one ever saw coming. The other idea I wanted to discuss was what possible new technologies could be the next version of social media.I asked him about censorship, but some people on the right felt that I didn’t go after him hard enough. Some people, like whoever wrote this article think I’m “right wing.”I’m not, and I don’t even think anyone who has paid attention to anything I’ve said believes that. It seems like someone wanted a good controversial click-baity title for the article regardless of whether or not it was accurate.As for the interview, I asked the questions I wanted to ask, and although his answers on some of them were vague, I felt like I got out of him whatever I was going to get without being too confrontational.There have also been talks of us editing the video and deleting disparaging YouTube comments. That’s not true. The video fucked up while we were filming and the tricaster crashed. As far as I know Jamie put it all back together. As for the YouTube comments we don’t delete those. I don’t know how it works, but I suspect there’s some form of what Dorsey talked about with twitter where machine learning downvotes certain perspectives, or what they deem “offensive” or “rude” comments. What definitely isn’t is Jamie or anyone else from my team deleting things.I definitely think there’s a discussion to be had about censoring comments through computer programs or manual deleting, but I want you folks to know we’re not responsible for any of that.I do my best, and if I didn’t fulfill some of your expectations I can understand. Honestly, I think I learn more from negative reactions than from positive ones, and I truly appreciate having a public review of these conversations because it’s part of how I get better at this s**t.