Stand up comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan likes to ask questions.
Some of those questions are about whether aliens exist, whether Jan. 6 was a false flag, whether the Bud Light controversy is really worth getting upset over, whether he should host Donald Trump on his show, and whether Mark Cuban knows what he's talking about.
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His fast-and-loose question format is part of the vast appeal of "The Joe Rogan Experience," which averages 11 million views per episode. And it's partly how he inked a $200 million deal with Spotify (SPOT) -) to carry his podcast exclusively in 2020.
But it's not always so heady or serious questions on the podcast. Rogan, after all, is a comedian, and he'll be the first to tell you that he's rarely the smartest person in the room.
"When I talk to Elon Musk, I'm very aware how dumb I am," he said in a podcast with fellow comedian Andrew Schulz in 2022. "When I talk to Lex Friedman, when I talk to Eric Weinstein -- Eric Weinstein makes me uncomfortable."
Nevertheless, Rogan continues his quest for answers to some of life's biggest questions. And on Tuesday, in a podcast with rapper Post Malone, Rogan tried to solve the moral outrage over the new "Barbie" movie.
Joe Rogan questions 'Barbie' movie moral panic
During a 4 hour and 41 minute podcast with Post Malone, Rogan cheekily asks the rapper if he's been paying attention to any pop culture trends recently.
"Have you seen the 'Barbie' movie?" Rogan asked, to which Post Malone replied he hadn't yet.
"A lot of people are upset about the 'Barbie' movie and I left perplexed," he continued, saying he saw it recently.
"Yeah, it was a fun movie! A fun, silly movie about dolls who come to life. But it's, you know, a lot of it is about the patriarchy. And, you know, it's a comedy. It's a comedy about dolls. But people are...upset because it's, you like, like a progressive metaphor for life...that they're pushing progressive politics in this. I'm like -- it's a f*cking doll movie. It's a doll movie!"
Rogan called the movie fun and original, but said he was still searching for where people were upset about hidden meanings.
"But at the end of it, I was like, how did people get outraged at that? I know some people personally who were saying it's anti-men. Like, no -- it's making fun of dorks."
Critics of the "Barbie," movie have said the movie to too woke and subliminally promotes a feminist agenda.
“My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen,” Shapiro tweeted in late July.
He cited the fact that the movie was mostly women, included a black female president and a trans character as some of the reasons for the movie's wokeness.
"I mean, Greta Gerwig is a lady. She’s making a good living off of this,” Shapiro said about the movie's director. “Margot Robbie is playing the lead. In fact, the entire cast aside from basically Ryan Gosling is women, so it seems like women are doing okay."
Former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki promptly fired back at Shapiro and others' accusations.
"That does it…I was not sure if I would go see it….but now I will definitely go….at a minimum maybe Barbie will tell us all what woke means…” she wrote on Twitter.
