Love him or loathe him, Joe Rogan hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Willing to discuss almost any topic, with a wide range of guests from different backgrounds – from Donald Trump to Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson and Kanye West, the Joe Rogan Experience podcast pulls in over 14.5 million listeners on Spotify – three times the audience TED Talks Daily draws.
Joe Rogan: “It’s so convenient that the guards were asleep. It’s so convenient that the cameras didn’t work… Years later you have a recording of the outside of the cell, but there’s 3 minutes missing. 3 minutes is plenty of time to k*ll somebody.”pic.twitter.com/dLMdoRBBUp
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) July 30, 2025
Rogan has enjoyed a varied career which has seen him earn his way as a stand-up comedian, reality TV host and occasional UFC commentator. In seven-minute clip, “The Daily Show” sarcastically recapped the life of a “high priest” who has emerged “to grapple with the mysteries of our universe” – a visionary they liken to “the great Renaissance thinkers”.
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“The world’s greatest thinker”
The segment, “The Path to Roganlightenment” charts Rogan’s life from his birth in Newark, New Jersey to his early television career, and punishing health and fitness routine (weight lifting plus regular and hot yoga) as well as his unusual diet.
Punctuated with JRE clips and direct soundbites, the satirical montage asks who was Joe Rogan “before he reached this summit?” on his mystical journey to becoming the world’s most famous podcaster.
From a minor part in NewsRadio, to the Man Show, to eating and drinking culinary delights such as maggots, cockroaches and donkey semen in Fear Factor, we learn that for Rogan, “time is a flat circle” leading him back to where it all began.
We hear some of Rogan’s most philosophical ponderings (“What’s freakier, being in the bottom of the ocean, or being up in space?”) to profound nuggets of wisdom delivered to the world “from the astral plane to which he had ascended: (“If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking dinosaur piss”).
Rogan had finally found his true vocation in life and “the most fundamental truth about the modern world”, that “a man may speak forever without knowing things – as long as he has a podcast…”
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