It’s impossible to be a Joe Rogan completist, so most of his fans pick a few tributaries. Over the course of about 1,400 episodes and counting, his roster of guests can be divided roughly three ways: (1) comedians, (2) fighters, and (3) “thinkers,” which requires air quotes because it encompasses everyone from Oxford scholars and MIT bioengineers to culture drivers such as the marketing entrepreneur Hotep Jesus and the rapper turned radio co-host Charlamagne tha God all the way across the known intellectual galaxy to conspiracy theorists like Rogan’s longtime buddy and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones. Rogan’s podcast gushes like a mighty river of content-approximately three episodes a week, usually more than two hours per episode, consisting of one marathon conversation with a subject of his choosing. So many people in the content business right now are trying, and failing, to get the attention of these men, and yet somehow Joe Rogan has managed to recruit a following the size of Florida. An indifferently received episode will tend to get somewhere around 1 million views. His interview last fall with Elon Musk has been viewed more than 24 million times on YouTube, and his YouTube channel, PowerfulJRE, has 6 million subscribers. Rogan’s second Netflix comedy special, Strange Times, dropped last year. 2 most-downloaded podcast on iTunes for two years running. The Joe Rogan Experience has been the No. Two South Asian friends of mine swear by him. It’s a massive group congregating in plain sight, and it’s made up of people you know from high school, guys who work three cubicles down, who are still paying off student loans, who forward jealous-girlfriend memes, who spot you at the gym. Aside from weed, which he very much enjoys and whose legalization he supports, and whiskey, which he enjoys maybe even more, and that awful brown toothpaste, Joe Rogan’s body is a temple.įew men in America are as popular among American men as Joe Rogan. He enjoys grilling elk that he shot with a bow, and he works out with the maniacal zeal you’d expect from someone who has favorite mushrooms. Joe Rogan used to be a tae kwon do state champion. Then I would go to the gym and crush it for about 18 to 20 minutes. It tastes like wet sand and looks like loose stool, and it’s hard to think of anything worse you might deliberately put in your mouth at 7 a.m. After that, I brushed my teeth with the only toothpaste Joe Rogan will let near his teeth, Onnit’s MCT Oil toothpaste, which is made of “bentonite clay and a touch of theobromine.” It promises “a completely new approach to oral care,” which I can confirm. I stirred a packet of Onnit Gut Health powder into my mushroom coffee, then downed an enormous pair of Alpha Brain pills, filled with nootropics to help with “memory and focus.”įor my breakfast on the go, I would eat an Onnit Oatmega brownie crisp protein bar, “crisp” being less a description and more a warning. I stuck to the health products, though, because you know how it goes-you buy one quad mace and soon your apartment is filled with them. Next, I took several vitamin supplements from a company called Onnit, whose core philosophy is “total human optimization” and whose website sells all kinds of wicked-cool fitness gear-a Darth Vader kettlebell ($199.95) a 50-foot roll of two-and-a-half-inch-thick battle rope ($249.95) a 25-pound quad mace ($147.95), which according to one fitness-equipment site is a weapon dating back to 11th-century Persia. (“I’ll have your most delicious thing, made from your least delicious things, please,” a friend said, scornfully.) But it tastes fine, and even better after another cup of actual coffee. As a coffee lover, the mere existence of mushroom coffee offends me. It’s a pour-and-stir powder made from lion’s mane and chaga-“two rock-star mushrooms,” according to Joe-and it’s made by a company called Four Sigmatic, a regular advertiser on Joe Rogan’s wildly popular podcast. E very morning of my Joe Rogan experience began the same way Joe Rogan begins his: with the mushroom coffee.
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