Joe Rogan Biography
Joe Rogan is a UFC color commentator, podcaster, comedian, actor, and former television host from the United States who hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast in which he and various guests discuss current events, comedy, politics, philosophy, science, and hobbies.
How old is Joe Rogan? – Age
He is 55 years old as of 11 August 2022. He was born in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. His real name is Joseph James Rogan.
Joe Rogan Family – Education
He had one Irish grandparent and three other grandparents of Italian descent. His parents divorced when he was five years old, and he hasn’t spoken to his father since he was seven. They eventually settled in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, where he attended Newton South High School and graduated in 1985.
Joe Rogan Wife
In 2009, Rogan married Jessica Ditzel, a former cocktail waitress. They have two daughters, born in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Rogan is also the stepfather of Ditzel’s previous relationship’s daughter. They moved to Gold Hill, Colorado, in 2008, but Ditzel became pregnant and they returned to Southern California four months later. They settled in Bell Canyon, California, where Rogan had been living intermittently since 2003.
They spent nearly $5 million on a new home in the area in 2018. The family will move into a $14 million home on Lake Austin in Austin, Texas, in 2020. He revealed in October 2019 that he is a first cousin once removed of My Chemical Romance members Gerard Way and Mikey Way, despite never meeting them.
Joe Rogan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $120 million.
Joe Rogan Spotify
Rogan made the announcement on May 19, 2020, that he had agreed to a multi-year licensing agreement with Spotify that was estimated to be worth $200 million. This agreement is one of the largest licensing agreements in the podcast industry. The Joe Rogan Experience became available on Spotify on September 1, 2020, and would remain exclusive to the service through January 2021 as a result of the agreement. The video is no longer streamed or uploaded to YouTube, but both audio and video versions of the podcast are available in the Spotify app. To allow producers time to create podcast clips, podcasts are typically released one day after recording. On YouTube, you can still watch portions of the video version. Spotify took down 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience in a few days in February 2022, in part because some of the episodes were thought to contain racist and insensitive language.
“Establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform,” 270 scientists, physicians, professors, doctors, and healthcare workers wrote in an open letter to Spotify in January 2022, expressing concern over “false and societally harmful assertions” on The Joe Rogan Experience. The signatories objected to Rogan “broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic” and, more specifically, “a highly controversial episode featuring guest Robert W. Malone (#1757),” who was a contributor to studies that were acknowledged as one of the earliest steps toward the development of an mRNA vaccine. “an unfounded theory that societal leaders have ‘hypnotized’ the public” was one of the conspiracy theories that were criticized for being promoted in the episode.
In an open letter, Neil Young vowed to remove his music from Spotify if the show was not taken down. On January 26, Young’s music was removed from Spotify. In support of Young and “the global scientific and medical communities on this issue,” songwriter Joni Mitchell took her music off Spotify on January 29. Rogan pledged to try to balance these more controversial viewpoints with those of others and denied intentionally spreading false information. Rumble, a video platform, offered Rogan $100 million to switch from Spotify in early 2022, but he declined.
Joe Rogan Podcast
In December 2009, Rogan and his friend and fellow comedian Brian Redban launched a free podcast. The first episode, in which Rogan and Redban would be “sitting in front of laptops bullshitting,” was recorded on December 24 and was going to be a live weekly broadcast on Ustream. The podcast was given the name “The Joe Rogan Experience” in August 2010, made it into iTunes’ Top 100 podcasts, and SiriusXM Satellite Radio picked it up in 2011. A variety of guests on the podcast talk about a wide range of topics, including politics, philosophy, comedy, hobbies, and current events. The podcast was downloaded more than 11 million times in January 2015. One of the most downloaded free podcasts that year was the podcast, which was downloaded 16 million times per month by October.
Rogan made the announcement on May 19, 2020, that he had agreed to a multi-year licensing agreement with Spotify that was estimated to be worth $200 million. This agreement is one of the largest licensing agreements in the podcast industry. The Joe Rogan Experience became available on Spotify on September 1, 2020, and would remain exclusive to the service through January 2021 as a result of the agreement. The video is no longer streamed or uploaded to YouTube, but both audio and video versions of the podcast are available in the Spotify app. To allow producers time to create podcast clips, podcasts are typically released one day after recording. On YouTube, you can still watch portions of the video version. Spotify took down 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience in a few days in February 2022, in part because some of the episodes were thought to contain racist and insensitive language.
In 2009, Rogan was the host of the CBS show Game Show in My Head, which aired for a brief period of time and featured contestants attempting to persuade viewers to participate in increasingly bizarre situations or perform for money. He accused comedian Dane Cook of stealing jokes in 2010. For the seventh and final season of Fear Factor, he took over as host in 2011. He played Gale, his first major role, in the comedy Zookeeper later that year. His sixth comedy special, Live from the Tabernacle, was only available as a $5 download on his website in 2012.
He hosted the SyFy network show Joe Rogan Questions Everything in 2013, which covered topics that he covered in his podcasts. The team behind the production wanted to use Rogan’s own words whenever possible and gave him some creative control over the program.
Joe Rogan TV Shows
♦ 1997–present – Ultimate Fighting Championship
♦ 2001–2002 – Late Friday
♦ 2001-2003 – Howard Stern
♦ 2011–2012 – Fear Factor
♦ 2002 – Just Shoot Me!
♦ 2003 – Good Morning, Miami
♦ 2003–2004 – The Man Show
♦ 2003–2004 – Chappelle’s Show
♦ 2003–2007 – Last Comic Standing
♦ 2005–2008 – The Ultimate Fighter
♦ 2006 – Inside the UFC
♦ 2007–2009 – UFC Wired
♦ 2009 – Game Show in My Head
♦ 2012–2013 – UFC Ultimate Insider
♦ 2013 – Joe Rogan Questions Everything
♦ 2015 – Silicon Valley