Biography
Joe Rogan has published The Joe Rogan Experience since December 2009.
The Run
The feed is the record. Episode #1, with Brian Redban, is dated 24 December 2009. At retrieval on 1 September 2026 the most recent was #2547, published 27 August 2026, with 2,744 items in the feed overall. The listed author is Joe Rogan — not a network, not a platform — and the show’s own description is four words longer than it needs to be: “the official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.”
Seventeen years of near-daily long-form conversation, published continuously, is the substance of the programme’s political significance. No broadcast institution produces at that volume, and none of the political interviews the show is discussed for could exist without the format the other two thousand episodes established.
Open Distribution
The full run is available through an ordinary RSS feed. That is worth stating because it was not always so: the programme spent a period distributed exclusively through one platform, and the exclusivity — and its end — is one of the clearest available illustrations of what platform exclusivity in podcasting is worth and how long it lasts.
Digital Political Impact
- The largest single instance of the long-form interview format this site tracks, and the one that established its political viability
- Published under a person’s own name rather than a publisher’s, at a cadence no broadcaster matches
- Its distribution history — open feed, then platform exclusive, then open feed again — is a case study in the limits of platform lock-in for audio
What Is Not Established Here
Removed in the citation audit: his birth year; audience and download figures; the terms, value and dates of any platform agreement; and the characterization of the programme as an “influential platform for political discourse”, which asserted an effect rather than a fact. The feed establishes what the show is, who publishes it, when it began and how many episodes it has run to; nothing else on the page could be sourced in this pass.
Sources
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Joe Rogan. The Joe Rogan Experience — podcast RSS feed. The programme's own feed, retrieved 2026-09-01 with 2,744 items. Lists Joe Rogan as the author — a person, not a network or platform — and describes itself as 'the official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.' The earliest retained item is '#1 - Brian Redban', dated 24 December 2009; the most recent at retrieval was '#2547 - Daniel Everett', 27 August 2026. That the full run is available in an open RSS feed is itself the notable fact, given the period in which the programme was exclusive to a single platform.
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Apple Inc.. Apple Podcasts directory entry for The Joe Rogan Experience. Directory lookup confirming the feed above is the one Apple lists and that Joe Rogan is the listed artist.