Joe Rogan Lets Loose on View’s Joy Behar Dismissing Him Because He ‘Believes in Dragons’: ‘You’re Worried About Losing Your Job’
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Joe Rogan clapped back at The View’s Joy Behar for dismissing him as a reliable source of information and claiming he “believes in dragons.”
On an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast released on Thanksgiving, Rogan was joined by fellow comedians Mark Normand, Shane Gillis, and Ari Shaffir. In one exchange, Rogan dove headfirst into Behar’s comments from last week. Rogan previously trolled Behar by changing his X description to “Dragon Believer.”
“I had to read the thing about The View because I just thought it was funny. Joy Behar was trying to say I believe in dragons! She said, ‘I checked it, I checked it!’ And then the lady goes, ‘Did you double check it,’ and she goes, ‘I checked it, he believes in dragons. They lived alongside people,'” Rogan said, laughing.
“We went from Walter Cronkite, basically, to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons. I checked it,” Behar said during the View segment in question.
“Did you triple-source that?” Sara Haines asked. The View hosts have previously boasted that their show is backed by ABC News and is therefore carefully vetted.
“Yes, I did,” Behar responded. “And he also thinks that dragon-like, I guess, dinosaur-y type of animals — roamed the Earth when people did. So this is a type of really, really bad information that’s going out there. But it’s possible Donald Trump did roam the Earth when dinosaurs were here.”
Rogan played a clip from the JRE segment Behar appears to be referencing, an interview with wildlife biologist Forrest Galante.
Galante at one point presented an “out there idea” that he’s heard some pushing. Galante said some argue dragons could have been alive at one point, explaining people point to similarities across cultures in drawings of such creatures. Galante said these dragon believers argue that “porous” bones would prevent many from fossilizing.
Rogan did not endorse the idea of full-blown dragons being around, but argued that dragon-like depictions likely stemmed from people battling large lizard creatures and those stories then being exaggerated or lost in translation as artists created depictions.
“My position is it’s probably crocodiles or some big Komodo dragon or some big lizard that did kill people and so people fought them with swords and shit and they came back with a story and the artist drew it,” Rogan said this week.
Rogan roasted Behar over the claim about him immediately following the reliability boast.
“This is the most important part. This is right after she was saying, ‘We are run by ABC News, you should trust us,’ not Joe Rogan who believes in dragons,’ so by saying we should trust them because they’re double checked by ABC News and then making the stupidest fucking statement — You didn’t listen to what I said, you didn’t listen to what the wildlife biologist said,” he said.
Rogan accused Behar of “frantic” behavior because she’s concerned about her job and the numbers podcasts like his bring in.
“When you’re worried about losing your job and you’re worried about podcasts taking over and who is the source of news and, ‘We said Donald Trump is Hitler, but half the country disagreed with us and this is crazy and Joe Rogan believes in dragons!’ It’s just frantic,” he said.
The podcaster and comedian made sure to wrap things up by saying he had nothing personally against Behar and he’d likely offer her a hug if he saw her despite her dragon believer accusation.
“I just want to say for the record, I have no hate for Joy Behar. If I saw her, I’d give her a hug. I’d probably say the same thing about me if I was her,” he said. “It’s no big deal, I don’t care, but it’s a silly thing saying it. It undermines your own personal credibility if you say we’re so good because we’re supported by ABC News and then you Joe Rogan believes in dragons in the next sentence.”
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