Joe Rogan claims Joy Behar is 'worried about losing her job' after she alleges he 'believes in dragons'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Podcaster Joe Rogan called out 'The View' co-host Joy Behar for claiming that he was not a reliable source of information as he "believes in dragons," on the Thanksgiving episode of his show, 'The Joe Rogan Experience'.

According to Mediaite, Behar said on the November 21 episode of her daytime talk show that the audience can trust the information shared on 'The View' as it is “checked by ABC News.”

“We went from Walter Cronkite basically to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons! I checked it!” she exclaimed in the segment. As her co-host Sara Haines inquired if Behar had "triple-sourced" the intel, she replied, "Yes, I did and he also thinks that dragons — I guess like dinosaur-type animals — would roam the Earth when people did. So this is the type of really, really bad information that’s going out there.”

Joe Rogan's response for Joy Behar

After ABC aired Joy Behar's comments, Joe Rogan trolled her by changing the description of his account on the social media platform X to read "Dragon Believer."

He brought up the subject on Thursday's episode, accompanied by fellow comedians Mark Normand, Shane Gillis, and Ari Shaffir, saying, "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'."

"This is the most important part," pointed out Rogan. "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 f**king statement — You didn’t listen to what I said, you didn’t listen to what the wildlife biologist said."

“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 continued.

Rogan concluded by saying that he did not harbor any hard feelings for Behar, and that making unverified claims only hurt her own credibility.

"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 stated. “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 (say) Joe Rogan believes in dragons in the next sentence.”

What is Joe Rogan's stance on dragons?

Joe Rogan played the clip on his podcast which Joy Behar was apparently referencing in her claim. It was from his interview with wildlife biologist Forrest Galante, who shared that he had heard some arguments in favor of dragons existing. Those who believe in dragons point out the similarities in their depictions across cultures and suggest that the creatures may have had "porous" bones which prevented them from being fossilized.

While the host never endorsed the idea of full-blown dragons being around, he considered the possibility of people battling large lizard creatures in the past and those stories then being exaggerated or lost in translation as artists came up with the idea of dragons.

“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,” clarified Rogan.