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JOE ROGAN

​Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host. He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast in which he discusses current events, comedy, politics, aliens, philosophy, science, martial arts, and hobbies with celebrity guests. Rogan was born in Newark, New Jersey, and began his career in comedy in 1988 in the Boston area. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1994, he signed an exclusive developmental deal with Disney and appeared as an actor on several television shows, including Hardball and NewsRadio. In 1997, he started working for the UFC as an interviewer and color commentator. He released his first comedy special, I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday..., in 2000 and hosted the game show Fear Factor from 2001 to 2006. After leaving Fear Factor, Rogan focused on his stand-up career and hosted more comedy specials. He launched The Joe Rogan Experience in 2009; by 2015, it was one of the most popular podcasts in the world, regularly receiving millions of plays per episode. Spotify obtained exclusive distribution rights to The Joe Rogan Experience in 2020 for US$200 million. Rogan's audience has since grown significantly, and in 2024, he renewed his deal with Spotify for an estimated $250 million, but will no longer be exclusive to them. Rogan supports same-sex marriage, gay rights, recreational drug use, universal health care, universal basic income, gun rights, and free speech, while also criticizing cancel culture and military adventurism. He has expressed political opinions such as supporting Ron DeSantis and criticizing Justin Trudeau and Vladimir Putin. Rogan has been criticized for his associated acts and promotion of conspiracies. He has made controversial comments about COVID-19 vaccines, ivermectin, and hosted guests who spread misinformation. He has also sparked controversy with his views on transgender athletes and making remarks promoting AIDS misinformation.
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Joe Rogan Reveals How He Wanted to Handle Kamala Harris Interview
Popular podcaster Joe Rogan said he would have guided former Vice President Kamala Harris through an interview on his podcast if she had come on the show ahead of the election, and he had no intention of being "antagonistic" toward the then-presidential candidate.
Newsweek filed out an online contact form for comment from Harris on Friday.Rogan is one of the most-listened-to media voices, and some strategists have suggested that Harris' decision not to appear on his podcast hurt her 2024 presidential campaign. Then-Republican nominee Donald Trump sat down with Rogan 10 days before the election he went on to win.
(Newsweek 2/14/25) READMORE>>>>>
Joe Rogan, Who Just Endorsed Trump, Once Called Him ‘So F*cking Dangerous’
Hours after Joe Rogan endorsed former President Donald Trump, clips of the podcast giant trashing the ex-president have resurfaced on social media. The influential podcaster announced his support for Trump on X (formerly Twitter) Monday night ahead of an interview with Elon Musk. “[Elon Musk]makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way,” Rogan wrote. “For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.”
(Media-Ite 11/5/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Surgeons Will Get 26% Better- Joe Rogan and Elon Musk’s Claims Will Make You Laugh at Critics Trying to Get Video Games Banned
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk talk about the health benefits of playing video games and also how it increases the efficiency of surgeons.(Fandom Wired 11/5/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Joe Rogan Endorses Donald Trump
Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race, just hours before polls opened. 
The Details: Rogan offered his endorsement in an X post where he was promoting his November 4 podcast episode with X CEO Elon Musk.
Key Quote: Rogan posted his full interview with Musk, captioned, “The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn't for him we'd be f***ed. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump.” (AllSides 11/5/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Joe Rogan's interview with JD Vance: 5 takeaways
Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance sat down with popular podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday for a lengthy interview discussing his initial reaction to the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, views on transgender rights and his favorite Netflix guilty pleasure, among a wide range of topics.   Rogan hosts the most listened to podcast on Spotify, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” with roughly 14.5 million followers. His audience is predominantly composed of young men – a key voting demographic Trump and Vance are trying to turn out to vote in the 2024 election.   Vance’s appearance on the show comes less than a week before the contentious 2024 election and just days after Rogan spoke with Trump about everything from aliens to election interference.  
(USA Today 10/31/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Will Trump's Joe Rogan Interview Help Win White House? Analysts' Verdicts
Former President Donald Trump sat down for an anticipated three-hour interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, on October 25, 2024, marking his first appearance on the popular podcast.
The podcast with Joe Rogan, which covered a broad range of topics, was also released on Spotify and YouTube, gaining over 40 million views. Throughout the interview, Trump made criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris, describing her as "a very low IQ person" and speculating that she would "be laying on the floor comatose" if she were subjected to a rigorous interview with Rogan.
(Newsweek 11/4/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Joe Rogan made major change to his podcast after ‘terrifying’ pre-fight interview with Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson is a different animal when he’s got a fight coming up. Joe Rogan found that out the hard way when he invited ‘Iron Mike’ on his popular podcast while the former undisputed heavyweight champion was preparing for an exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr. in 2020. The UFC commentator’s previous interactions with Mike Tyson were all happy and mellow, but he says something switched when the heavyweight icon booked a fight. (Bloody Elbow 11/4/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Joe Rogan Declines Kamala Harris Podcast Interview Amid Campaign Demands
Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan has turned down an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris due to conditions set by her campaign, though he expressed hope the conversation could still happen. Rogan said the Harris team requested he travel to her location and limit the interview to one hour — terms he found unsuitable, the New York Post reported. “They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her, and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin,” Rogan shared on X (formerly Twitter). He emphasized that the invitation remains open, saying, “I really hope we can make it happen.”
(Dallas Express 10/29/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast has three questions for voters who care about America’s health crisis
On a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan met with New York Times bestselling author and founder of TrueMed Payments Calley Means. Means’ mission is to expose the medical industrial complex that profits from keeping people sick and insist that more health care dollars be spent on preventive measures, such as exercise, healthy food, sleep, and stress management. Dave Rubin plays the clip of Means explaining to Rogan why Trump is the only choice for voters who care to avoid a public health crisis of cataclysmic proportions.
 (The Blaze 10/14/24) READ MORE>>>>>
March 22, 2024: The Wrap reported: Two years after Joni Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify to protest the platform’s support for anti-vaccine podcaster Joe Rogan, the icon’s catalog is once again streamable. Her unannounced return to Spotify follows that of Neil Young earlier this month: The “Heart of Gold” singer/songwriter, who also reinstated his oeuvre after other platforms, including Apple, Amazon and YouTube, began carrying Rogan’s podcast.
October 14, 2024: MSN reported: Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could sit down with popular podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. Harris campaign officials met with Rogan's team this week but an appearance has not been confirmed yet, two of the sources said. Rogan, who runs the most popular podcast in the United States, has a highly coveted and devoted following that leans young, male and numbers in the tens of millions. 
​November 5, 2024: Joe Rogan: “The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn't for him we'd be f***ed. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump.”
December 22, 2023: MediaIte reported: Bill Maher, the political satirist who hosts Real Time with Bill Maher on Max, is trusted more by the American public than several other high-profile names in the media, according to a new poll from WPA Intelligence obtained by Mediaite. According to the survey of 1,000 respondents, which has a margin of error of 3.1%, Maher is trusted by a larger proportion of the country than former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, podcaster Joe Rogan, and even CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
June 26, 2021: Joe Rogan on his podcast: “One of the reasons why I think [Jan. 6] is important is because it highlights the reasons why a guy like Donald Trump is so fucking dangerous,” Rogan said. “Because a guy can incite a bunch of morons to do something really fucking stupid. I think it’s really important. And one of the reasons why I think it’s important is because it highlights the reasons why a guy like Donald Trump is so fucking dangerous. [It] is because a guy can incite a bunch of morons to do something really fucking stupid. And now that he’s silenced off of social media, and now that that actually did happen, once it becomes a thing, it could be like mass shootings, Right? They didn’t exist. Then they did. Now they’re a thing. That could be a thing.
September 5, 2021: National Review reported: That’s why I’m leery of the media barrage of criticism that last week was directed at Joe Rogan, the podcast host with 13.1 million followers, after he announced that he’d tested positive for COVID but has recovered thanks to a cocktail of medical treatments. Rogan is not anti-vaccine, but he decided to throw the “kitchen sink” at COVID. ​
June 23, 2020: Rogan: “I think I'll probably vote for Bernie... He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.”

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“People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.”   ― Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice
​“Heartless gossips pose as professional press, they get a few quotes and run with the story like Seabiscuit to the finish line. They’re nothing more than conmen, salesmen, pitchmen, pompous men professing to be of public service—and they have the freedom to do so. There’s no price to pay.”  ― Pamela L Hamilton, Lady Be Good Lib/E: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
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