Joe Rogan has been keeping the content coming in almost every day, while fans await his move from YouTube to Spotify come September. For now, it’s all YouTube. The podcast host and UFC commentator welcomed Honey Honey, a pair of musicians who are past podcast guests, to discuss all things life in an epic four-hour conversation.

Rogan discusses the usual gamut of subjects with Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe, namely, everything that’s happening in the world right now. That means, a lot of discussion around politics, Trump’s various missteps– including the Bible photo op he had the other week— as well as who else might be able to fill the role of President.

The conversation begins with The Rock. Rogan advocates for The Rock at first, before later suggesting Killer Mike. “The Rock for president,” he starts, “Step in, step in. I saw your Instagram, my brother, listen, you could do it, I vote for you, no one’s going to fuck with You. You are America, by the way.”

Rogan continued to enumerate The Rock’s qualities: “And he’s a super nice guy, legitimately super nice, incredibly ambitious. He is the American dream, he came up from poverty. He epitomizes hard work.” 

However, as the conversation takes a turn, Rogan has a sudden thought: “Killer Mike, how about Killer Mike for President?” Joe Rogan adds, “He could be president, no bullshit. 100%.”

What do you think between the two contenders? Watch the full podcast episode below.

Anthony Bourdain passed away a year ago today, to the surprise of many, after taking his own life. The famous chef and TV personality was 61 years old when he hanged himself. As details came to light following his death, it was revealed that he did suffer from depression, while there were no narcotics in his system at the time he died. 

In reflecting on Bourdain today, Rogan expressed his admiration for Bourdain, and equally, his regret that he wasn’t able to help Bourdain through whatever he was dealing with at the time. “I really admired Bourdain, and I couldn’t imagine that a guy like him would ever get to the point where he would want to take his own life. I just thought he was one of the coolest people alive and that his perspective and insight would navigate him through the most difficult of waters that many people encounter in life,” Rogan wrote, before adding: “To this day I’ll think about him and wonder if I could have steered him into a better place if I was around during his last day.”

In the image of the post, Rogan shared a piece of original artwork that hangs on the wall at this podcast studio, serving as a constant reminder of Bourdain.

Check out his IG post below.

Joe Rogan isn’t buying Conor McGregor‘s alleged retirement “for a second.” The podcast host and MMA commentator told ESPN McGregor is simply looking for attention.

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“I don’t buy it [the retirement] for a second,” Rogan said smiling. “I think Conor McGregor is just trying to get you to talk about him and he just did. What better way to get people to talk about him when there’s a spectacular fight filled with people dominating. What he did was hijack the whole situation. I’m not buying it.”

McGregor announced his retirement from fighting on Twitter, early Sunday. 

“Hey guys I’ve decided to retire from fighting. Thank you all for the amazing memories! What a ride it’s been! Here is a picture of myself and my mother in Las Vegas post one of my World title wins! Pick the home of your dreams Mags I love you! Whatever you desire it’s yours,” he wrote.

McGregor has previously said that he planned for fight three times in 2020. He’s also claimed to be retiring at multiple other points throughout his career.

UFC 250 aired Saturday night. The event included fights between Amanda Nunes and Felicia Spencer, as well as Raphael Assuncao and Cody Garbrandt.

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Action Bronson, rapper and host of Fuck, That’s Delicious, is down 65 pounds from his previous weight of 363 pounds, a size that had him on a “path that leads straight to the graveyard,” he says.

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Bronson spoke about his weight loss and workout regimen in a new Instagram post with video of himself exercising: “I was on a path that leads straight to the graveyard,” he says in the caption. “Eating for sport took its toll but it’s my fault and it’s on me to fix me. I owe it to myself and my family. I reached 363 pounds and I was shocked and scared. I busted my ass for the past 3 months, and I’m down to 298. Then a good friend got me to the right spot now I’m training hard. This is week one.”

As Bronson says, he’s been on the weight loss grind for 3 months. At the 50 pound mark, he spoke with TMZ: “Me, myself, I lost 50 pounds just now. I mean, I’m still fat, which shows you I still need to lose another 60,” he joked. “I mean, I’ve been working out crazy, I’ve been eating really good, I’ve been juicing.”

Podcaster and fitness fanatic Joe Rogan commented on the video saying, “That’s beautiful! Keep going my brother!!!”

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Joe Rogan often has guests he doesn’t necessarily agree with, simply to engage in a debate where he can learn more. It’s one of the biggest issues with social media algorithms, in the sense that, whatever you engage with you will receive more of– thus forcing you deeper into one side of an issue, without any information on the opposing view. This allows for extreme views on either side of spectrum.

As the world is still grappling with the protests and riots, Rogan hosted two guests who run an opinion-based news commentary show for The Hill, called Rising. Krystal and Saagar bring to light certain political issues or views you might not even be aware– it’s actually a pretty interesting episode.

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Among the discussion points, they discuss the protests and riots and how to quell them, as well as where we go from here. Interestingly enough, Rogan advocates that chokeholds shouldn’t necessarily be banned from the police force– although Minneapolis has announced exactly such a ban today.

As Rogan explains, the chokehold is an effective way of putting someone unconscious if you’re trained in martial arts. Which, let’s face it, most cops are clearly not.

“I don’t think you should make chokeholds illegal. If you’re a cop and you’re in a fight for your life against someone whose done something horrible, you should be able to use ji jitsu and one of the best techniques in ji jitsu is choking people unconscious. And it’s not that dangerous– it’s not as dangerous as beating someone, it’s not as dangerous as head trauma.”

As far as what Derek Chauvin to George Floyd, Rogan continues: “What that guy did, was just torture. It has nothing to do with utilizing a good martial art technique to subdue a perpetrator.”

Joe Rogan enlisted Reggie Watts as a guest on his most recent podcast, the first since the protests really started to take off on Friday and over the weekend– thus his fanbase readily anticipating what the podcast behemoth might say on the turmoil across America right now, in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

For two and a half hours, Joe Rogan and Reggie Watts weave in and out of topics, with everything from the protests to politics to cars. As far as responses to George Floyd’s death and the protests around the nation, Rogan brings up the mysterious palettes bricks that have reportedly been popping around the States, questioning why in the world they’re there.

“Have you seen these bricks?” he asks Reggie. “These organized stacks of bricks? Who is putting that? Is it ANTIFA, is it the cops? Is it someone who wants them to throw bricks so they can impart Marshall Law? What is it? These are bricks that are appearing that don’t have a reason to be there.”

“And my left wing friends think it’s right wing people that are agent provocateurs that are trying to start this chaotic scene so that the military can be called in,” Rogan continued. “Agent provocateurs have been used since the beginning of time. Hitler did that […] Nero burned Rome.”

As far as Trump’s response to the protest, threatening Americans with the use of vicious dogs and ominous weapons, Rogan says:

“Trump talks about using dogs, using the most vicious dogs– it’s such a foolish way of communicating in times of crisis, and that’s what’s dangerous. Some people are really good in times of crisis, like Obama was very good in times of crisis. Even George W., George W. gave a speech after 9/11 that made everyone love him.” He added, “You don’t get that feeling with Trump at all.”

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“He’s just in his own feedback loop. Whatever he can do to make himself feel good, he’ll do it. He only understands caveman principles […] but he doesn’t believe in himself,” Reggie said in response.

Before the podcast wraps up, Rogan also points out what many have already pointed out social media, with a poignant side-by-side image of Colin Kaepernick kneeling as a form of protest, and Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck– killing him. 

“How ironic is it, that Colin Kaepernick took all this shit for kneeling at the Super Bowl, and this fucking guy kneels on this guy’s neck and proves the point – kills the guy, by doing the very thing that Colin Kaepernick was criticized for,” Rogan says.

“…Doing it to a Black guy and killing him. It’s kinda fucking crazy. It’s sort of symbolic about like, look, this is what they’re talking about. This is the thing, right here in front of your face.”

Check out the full episode with Reggie Watts below.

Justin Gaethje has been having himself an eventful few weeks thanks to his recent win against Tony Ferguson at UFC 249. Not many people expected him to come away with a victory in the fight but he was able to pull it off, regardless. Now, Gaethje will get to fight against the likes of Khabib Nurmagomedov for a title, although Conor McGregor would have you believe Gaethje should fight him first.

During a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s MMA Show, Gaethje addressed Conor McGregor and sent some shots his way. As Gaethje explained, he wants to take care of Khabib first and has no problems fighting McGregor in the future. In fact, Gaethje thinks he has the opportunity to do something legendary.

“That’s second to none, no one will beat me. Conor McGregor, its gonna be a f**king race. We’re talking about milliseconds here and that’s the race that we’ll have,” Gaethje said. “I can fight him right now if I wanted to and everyone would say that I am lying and if it was there, I would take it and Daniel Cormier said that the other day. I’m not that fighter. For one, I have the opportunity to do something that can be unmatched in the history of our sport. To go in there, to come of the circumstances. To beat Tony like I did, go beat Khabib, go beat Conor, that’s legendary.”

Defeating Khabib will be no small task so before he even thinks about Conor, he will have to make sure he can get himself a title.

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He hasn’t commented much about the accident that nearly took his life, but Kevin Hart opened up the harrowing incident on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. The celebrated comedian was involved in a single-vehicle car crash that left him unable to walk. After spinal surgeries and months of physical therapy, Kevin Hart is just getting back to feeling at 100 percent. When discussing the accident, he told Joe Rogan about the “biggest cry” he’d ever had in his life when returning home post-surgery.

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“My biggest cry in life came from the first day that I came home from the hospital because I never had to see that house again,” he said. “Like there was an option of me never seeing that home again. There was an option of me never walking on that driveway again. There was an option of me never seeing my wife and my kids again.” As he struggled mentally, emotionally, and physically, Hart said he made sure to keep a smile on his face even though it contradicted how he was feeling.

“I lied in the hospital because I didn’t want them to know that I was having pain because I thought that they were gonna stop me from letting me continue to try my walks,” he said, adding that there was even a point where he couldn’t even “wipe [his] own ass.” He tried getting back on his feet without his walker just weeks after his surgery, but he believed he should have taken more time to recover.

“My son doubled as nurse, my daughter doubled as nurse, [my wife] Eniko doubled as it. My brother came,” he said. “That’s when the care about what was important really changed … The things that you think are important, you get to looking around at a hospital, almost four walls — none of that sh*t that you think is important is in there. It’s one of these people.” Watch Hart’s episode below.

The Brilliant Idiots have remained one of the most consistent podcasts, since their debut in 2014. They were just enough ahead of the podcast boom, and equally Charlamagne’s own success as a radio host with The Breakfast Club– with these two factors coming together and helping the podcast grow to the place it is right now. 

For the unfamiliar, the podcast is hosted by Charlamagne Tha God and New York-based comedian Andrew Schulz. It’s become a place where Charlamane can often vent and express views he may not have shared with Breakfast Club listeners, much like he did recently with his (reluctant) take on 6ix9ine. The two tend to discuss whatever is buzzing in pop culture at large week-to-week, so of course, one of the biggest topics of their latest episode centered around Joe Rogan’s exclusive distribution deal with Spotify. 

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In fact, they kick off the episode discussing the deal. “I just think that it’s brilliant that Spotify recognized top-tier talent and they invested in top-tier talent, and it’s brilliant on Joe Rogan because he didn’t have to do this,” Charlamagne said, before they dive into numbers speculation. “They said his lives shows, ad revenue, and what he makes off YouTube, his podcast, made $30 million […] so thats not something he had to do unless Spotify came with a life-changing number, which clearly they did. But that’s what you do when you’re investing in that kind of talent.”

As far as what they think Rogan is raking in with his Spotify deal, Charlamagne says, “I think that Joe Rogan upfront got $125-150 million, and i think on the backend, he probably stands to make another $150. I can’t see him getting any less than $125 [million] up front though.”

Schulz counters, “If he was getting $30 million a year, and it’s a 3-year deal it doesn’t make sense for him to do it for only $120 [million], because he was gunna make $90 [million] in that time, or the podcast could grow in that amount of time and he’s gunna make $120 [million]. I feel like it’s gotta be double what he would have made in those three years at that current rate, bare minimum. I feel like it’s gotta be at least $180 [million] and maybe over $200 mill with those incentives and stuff. I feel like it’s gotta be guaranteed $180 [million].” 

Whatever the case, we can all agree that Rogan is a very wealthy man. Check out the new episode of the Brilliant Idiots below.

Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience as it’s called, will soon be finding a new home. The podcast host has become a giant in the industry, and he does it all independently. He’s built a reputation on reliable, honest, and informed conversations whether it be with a fellow comedian or an expert in a field he knows nothing about– he somehow always seems to know enough to keep the conversation engaging. 

Now, with 8.41 million YouTube subscribers, Joe Rogan has made a big announcement. The comedian and host will be bringing his respected podcast to the Spotify, starting on September 1 2020. Rogan dropped off a little clip especially for the announcement, maintaining that the podcast itself will not change– he is not working for Spotify, and he will retain full control over JRE. However he has entered in an exclusive multi-year agreement with Spotify, for them to be able to host the podcast.

The video aspect of the Joe Rogan Experience will remain intact as well, as Spotify confirms you will still be able to access his videos. Everything will remain free and accessible.

Check out Joe Rogan’s quick announcement on the news below. 

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