Joe Rogan trivia | 50 facts about the famous podcaster

Podcasts are gaining more and more “fans”, and Joe Rogan is certainly one of the most successful and famous podcasters right now.

So, let’s find out more about his life and work!

1. His full name is Joseph James Rogan.
2. He is an American comedian, podcast host, and mixed martial arts color commentator.
3. He has also worked as a television host and an actor.
4. He was born on August 11th, 1967 in New Jersey.
5. He is of three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish descent.
6. His father, Joseph, is a former police officer in Newark.
7. Rogan’s parents divorced when he was five, and he has not been in contact with his father since he was seven.
8. He has mentioned that his father was violent, so all he remembers of him are flashes of domestic violence
9. From ages 7 to 11, the family lived in San Francisco, California.
10. Then they moved to Gainesville, Florida when he was eleven.
11. They settled outside Boston in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, where Rogan attended Newton South High School, from which he graduated in 1985.
12. Rogan participated in Little League Baseball but developed an interest in martial arts in his early teens.
13. He recalled being “terrified of being a loser” as a child
14. At fourteen, Rogan took up karate.
15. A year later, started Taekwondo.
16. At nineteen, he won the US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight.
17. He was a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for four consecutive years and became a Taekwondo instructor.
18. Rogan also practiced amateur kickboxing and held a 2–1 record.
19. He retired from competition at age 21 as he began to suffer from frequent headaches and feared he might sustain worse injuries.
20. He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston but found it pointless and dropped out early.
21. He lived in the Boston area until he was 24, and then moved to New York City.
22. According to Forbes Joe Rogan is the highest-earning podcast in the world.
23. His podcast is named the “Joe Rogan Experience”.
24. It’s on air for a decade.
25. It has 190 million downloads per MONTH!
26. His podcast earnings are 30million$.
27. He’s interviewing comedians, MMA fighters, politicians, and cospiracy theorists.
28. His show has been criticized many times though.
29. At 21, after six months preparing material and practicing his delivery.
30. He performed his first stand-up routine on August 27, 1988, at an open-mic night at Stitches comedy club in Boston.
31. While he worked on his stand-up, Rogan had several jobs to secure himself financially.
32. One of them was teaching martial arts.
33. One night, Rogan convinced the owner of a comedy club in Boston to allow him to try a new, five-minute routine.
34. At the show was talent manager Jeff Sussman, who liked Rogan’s act and offered to become his manager
35. Rogan accepted and his stand-up-comedian career started just like that.
36. In 1990, Rogan moved to New York City as a full-time comedian.
37. In 1994, Rogan relocated to Los Angeles where his first national television spot followed on the MTV comedy show Half-Hour Comedy Hou.
38. During the middle 90s Rogan began performing at The Comedy Store in Hollywood
39. He became a paid regular by owner Mitzi Shore.
40. He performed at the club for the next 13 years for free.
41. Rogan paid for the venue’s new sound system.
42. In 1999, Rogan secured a three-album deal with Warner Bros. Records and began tentative plans to star in his own prime-time televised sitcom on Fox named The Joe Rogan Show.
43. In 2001, development on Rogan’s television show was interrupted after he accepted an offer from NBC to host the American edition of Fear Factor.
44. He declined initially as he thought the network would not air such a program due to its content, but Sussman convinced him to accept.
45. Fear Factor ran for an initial six seasons from 2001 to 2006
46. In 2002, he appeared on the episode “A Beautiful Mind”
47. Rogan hosted short-lived CBS show Game Show in My Head that aired for eight episodes in January 2009 and was produced by Ashton Kutcher
48. In 2010, Rogan accused comedian Dane Cook of joke thievery
49. In December 2009, Rogan launched a free podcast with his friend and fellow comedian Brian Redban.The first episode was recorded on December 24 and was initially a live weekly broadcast on Ustream.
50. By August 2010, the podcast was named The Joe Rogan Experience and entered the list of Top 100 podcasts on iTunes, and on n May 19, 2020, Rogan announced that he had signed a multi-year licensing deal with Spotify, worth an estimated $100 million, making it one of the largest licensing agreements in the podcast business.