"Left wing approved" Joe Rogan alternative

Yes they're friends but their podcasts are very very different. Lex is a very bright guy, who has a great ability to interview smart people in an interesting way. He is very versed in science and comes from that background.(His dad is a plasma physicist).

Joe on the other hand is more of an all rounder, can hold a conversation, but would generally not be versed enough in the discussion to ask telling questions.

Personally I hate the whole left right dichotomy. Its completely meaningless these days. Just not very helpful in understanding what people actually believe in.

Deeply depressing. It would appear that we're regressing as a species rather than advancing.

What has this got to do with the OP’s question?

You're not going to find a "left-wing approved" alternative to Joe Rogan simply because the JRE is probably the biggest podcast in the world. As such there isn't any alternative to it of any hue.

That's a shame because in the last few years Rogan himself has really started to circle the right-wing/conspiracy rabbit hole. You referred to other podcasts not having any fact checking. That implies that you think that Rogan does. In reality Rogan tends to be very selective about what sort of fact-checking he chooses to do. He'll pepper people with questions if they don't agree with his own priors - otherwise he won't be as rigorous and tends to give them an easy time.

This was especially evident during Covid - I recall him question Rhonda Patrick on the topic of Covid and vaccines (she was pro-vaccine) up until the point at which she admitted that she didn't know an answer or that nobody did (Aside: if someone says that they don't know something then that's a great sign that they're likely to be on the level). At the same time he had Robert Malone pushing blatant vaccine disinformation (with the utmost confidence) and Rogan didn't question him to the same level at all - because he was telling him what he wanted to hear.

That's not balanced. That's not even fact-checking. That's putting your thumb on the scale.

You can also do this by the choice of guests that you have on. He seems to love platforming people who make a loving out of pushing disinformation of one type or another. Almost all of them are on the right but then once in a while he'll have some "left-wing" grifter on like Tulsi Gabbard or Jimmy Dore so that he can claim that he's balanced.

I say all of this as someone who has watched a lot of JRE. When he has astrophysicists or botanists or, well any scientists really then that was some of the best long form content you could find online. His MMA shows are always great too. It's a shame he doesn't do more of that and less of the "ranting about people from the other side" type shows that seem to be more and more of his output now.

Ok, if you like listening to podcasts that sound like it's a random conversation down the bar then that's grand. I don't personally listen to podcasts to get that, I'd just go down the pub and take part in one.

Rogan is left wing. He's just not a far left zealot so he's smeared as being right wing by the media.