"Left wing approved" Joe Rogan alternative

Not sure I can personally recommend anything to you as I do not listen to a lot of political podcasts and the ones I do listen to have been mentioned already. Aside from Jokko Willink and Blindboy - both of whom I periodically dip in and out of - every podcasts I listen to has been mentioned.

Of the podcasts I have never listened to - and know very little about - The Rubin Report and Breaking points sound like two podcasts that might be worth you checking out to see if they fit your requirements. As I say I know nothing about either but the people who I have heard make positive noises about them tend to be people who's opinion has been good in other areas for me.

But I fear that the more "approved" a podcast is going to be or appear to be - the more of a not stimulating echo chamber of repetition it is likely to actually be. So the more a podcast fits your net here - the less I think you're actually going to like it.

The whole "left/right" thing to me has never been interesting, coherent, or useful. I prefer listening to people - like Rogan himself I guess - who is happy to have positions and opinions that fall all across such arbitrary spectrums. He is liberal on drugs for example - but he is also behind the second amendment and gun ownership and hunting. Which is similar to myself as someone who is very much into the idea of legalizing and regulating a drugs industry well - while at the same time I am happily out once a week showing my 12 year old daughter how to use various archery bows, rifles, and other guns or I am out trying to hunt my own meat etc etc. I also overlap him on a lot of his Martial arts, idea of personal responsibility, and personal health and fitness.

I always love when people think he is an "idiot" because out of the 5500+ hours of content he has produced - much of it while high or drunk or both - they can find 1 or 2 things (like the furries school thing above) that he clearly got wrong. Or the one he laughs at himself a lot about was when he retweeted the claim that Steven Seagal was a Russian Combatant in the war. I have lost count of how many podcasts Rogan himself has called himself a Moron and no one should take his word on anything at all. Useful advice to take on ever the most seemingly intelligent and cogent podcasters!

As if those detractors could talk for 5500 hours in an entertaining and successful fashion and get everything right themselves. As if. :) If I talked for 5500 hours you would likely be able to write whole tomes on the errors I would make and the questionable opinions I hold. Rather than desperately trying to misrepresent his opinions on Ivermectin just to manufacture something to make him look bad. That they have to manufacture so hard to misrepresent him shows just how little material of error and failure he has given them to work with over the years. Perfect? Far from it! He is human and a moron like the rest of us. But he is doing something right if they fail so spectacularly to get something on him.

Not to mention the fact that the whole realm of pronouns and identity is becoming so ridiculous that it often is hard to discern fact from reality, and earnest honesty from trolling, comedy and parody. It's an interesting world indeed where a story about a litter box being installed in a school gives one pause enough to consider it actually might be true. Even on this boards.ie forum I have seen obvious (to me) parody posts being made on many topics and people have taken them seriously. Because more and more it's genuinely getting hard to tell.

Rather than idolize anyone or condemn them - in my old age I have tended towards a more nuanced outlook. I try to take everyone at their best and worst and try to decide if I think the world is a better place with them in it, or worse and the world would be better off without them or will be better off when they die. And on that continuum I find Rogan places quite well on the positive side. Both he himself as a person - but also his podcast where when I have listened to his guest speak for 2 to 5 hours I have gotten such a deep and nuanced picture of them and their reasonings compared to some article written about them or some 3 minute segment on Fox, CNN or Sky.