I used to frequent the Joe Rogan forum for about 5 years, prior to any of his podcasts. My perspective is that his podcasts reflect who he really is. He is not

I used to frequent the Joe Rogan forum for about 5 years, prior to any of his podcasts. My perspective is that his podcasts reflect who he really is. He is not chasing where the money is, as someone said here. Joe believed in the 2012 Mayan conspiracy, frequently talked about Lizard people and was kind of tongue and cheek...but he brought it up so frequently that I always wondered if he actually believed it. That's just a small subset of the conspiracy theories he believed in. He has always been tech savvy, even had a T1 installed back in the day, just so he can play video games in 1990, which was $10,000 a month back then. When he started thinking about a podcast, it was pretty much with his friends, and also frequent forum posters in his board. Redban, was already working for Joe for years, he was the tech guy, so naturally he helped with the podcast. I stopped frequenting that boards after a few podcasts, the forum userbase changed for one, but the main problem is he started expressing his crazy beliefs a lot more frequently. Before the podcasts it came up, but it was once in a while. With the podcasts it could not be ignored.