Trump: if you didn’t do the UFC stuff? Would you have this show, do you think?
Rogan:
Yeah, I would still be doing it for sure. Yeah.
Trump:
Would it be at the same level? I don’t know. But you would have…
Rogan:
It’s hard to know. I think one of the things that works for this show, I guess, is that I’m involved in so many different things. You know, stand-up comedy, UFC, and all the interests that I have that lead to the podcast.
Trump:
Will you always want to do… First of all, you love UFC.
Rogan:
I love it, yeah.
Trump:
You love the fights. I mean, I watch you. You are loving it.
They could pay you nothing. It’d be very…
Rogan:
They didn’t pay me anything for the first like 13 shows. I did it for free because they were hemorrhaging money. And I became friends with Dana.
And my position was, you’re going to give me the best seat in the house. I get to sit cage side for the fights. I was like, I’ll do it.
And I wanted to help. I was like, I think these are the guys that we had always hoped for. In the early days of the sport, I started working for the company in 1997.
I was the… Before the UFC was purchased by Zufa, which Dana worked for. So I was a part of the previous owners.
And I only did it for a couple of years. It was just too much and I was losing money. And it was banned from cable because of Budweiser and John McCain.
And you could only get it on direct TV. And so…
Trump:
And then I came along and I gave him…
Rogan:
And he loves you for that. He loves you for that.
Trump:
He talks about it all the time. Just to interrupt you for one second. So they couldn’t get a site because it was too dangerous and everybody was against it and they couldn’t get a license.
And I gave him the first two or three sites and they were great. And by the way, I went to the first fight. I said, I never saw anything like this.
It was crazy. It was so good. Take the best fight you’ve ever…
It was like that fight, right? It was so good that I gave it to him again and again. And all of a sudden they caught on.
But you know, when I wasn’t in Vogue… You know, I’ve had time. You probably never had a time.
But I had times when I wasn’t exactly in Vogue. Dana, they called him. He said, he’s the greatest guy.
There’s nobody like him. He said, I’ll never say anything bad about that guy. Because when I needed…
Because they were having a hard time at the beginning. They almost pulled the plug a couple of times, right? He said, he stood up and he gave us stuff that nobody else gave us.
And nobody wanted anything to do. And he said, I will never… And there was a time where it would have been very popular for him to say bad stuff about me.
He said the greatest stuff about me. He said, you’re going to try and get me to say bad stuff about Trump? I’m never doing it.
No, he’s a very, very, very loyal guy.
Rogan:
Very unusual guy. He’s a fantastic guy. A perfect guy to be at the helm of something so controversial as the UFC.
Trump:
Less controversial now.
Rogan:
Well, now it’s huge.

On 10/25/2024, Donald Trump joined Joe Rogan’s podcast for a three-hour interview, discussing the 2024 campaign and current events. This marks Trump’s first appearance on Rogan’s show, a top podcast with millions of listeners nationwide. Trump has largely chosen podcast interviews over traditional media, targeting younger and male-skewed audiences. The podcast, recorded in Austin, Texas, afforded the Republican presidential nominee exposure to Rogan’s 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcast host, is extremely influential with young male voters, who Trump is aiming to reach.

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