Joe Rogan fled “violent” father for San Francisco’s gay scene

Of all controversial men who have met Joe Rogan over the years, one seems to have a darker influence than most others.

“My father would have transformed me into a psychopath,” said 57-year-old Podcaster once about his father, Joseph Sr.

“He was crazy, he was a psychotic person … someone who can’t hold it together. I would see how he beats boys in a bar. He was a karate type. ‘

Rogan’s father, now a retired police officer in New Jersey in the 80s, vehemently denied the allegations. In fact, they have not been repeated since Joseph SR Rogan’s lawyers sent an entitlement to the “defaming statements” in 2022.

But his claims of violent upbringing have continued to raise the eyebrows – not least from Rogan’s own half -sister.

Rosa Rogan Lunelli, 46, said the Daily Mail that she has never met her famous relative and the demands he raised against her older father.

The 57 -year -old Rogan has not spoken to his father Joseph (right) since seven years

Rosa Rogan Lunelli, 46, said the Daily Mail that she had never met her famous half -brother and the claims he raised against her older father

“Since Joe’s entrance to the letter from the lawyers, he has not spoken about his claims for abuse,” says Rosa.

“My family relentlessly denies these claims. There was no contact from Joe to want to meet our father or us. ‘

It is a regret for the Maga supporter Rosa, who says that she was “proud” when Rogan interviewed last October during a three-hour conversation that drove the president back into the White House.

“It was absolutely an influential moment of the campaign when Joe Donald Trump interviewed before the election,” she told the Daily Mail.

“Our family fully supports President Trump and his agenda and what it made so influential was that it was something that has never been done before.

‘Joe has the ability to make the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of people through his podcast, so it was huge to put on President Trump. Our family was glad that the podcast for the Trump campaign was so successful. ‘

What is the truth of Rogan’s extraordinary background story that risen him from a restless childhood to one of the most powerful media titans in the United States?

Rogan’s parents were born in 1967 as the son of Joseph Sr. and his mother Susan in Newark and separated when he was five years old.

He and his mother then moved to San Francisco two years later, while his father married again and had two daughters, pink and bridget. Since then, father and son have not spoken.

A young rogan settled in the suburb of Haight-Ashbury, which he referred to as the “middle of the Hippie San Francisco”.

His new neighbors were a gay couple with whom his mother would “get naked and play the bongos and smoke pot”. Susan soon married again to a “hippie” computer programmer that Rogan never publicly named.

Rogan with his wife Jessica Ditzel at the Grand Prix of the United States in Texas last year

Describes his new life in SF in his podcast, The Joe Rogan experienceHe said: “Suddenly I live with this hippie type in San Francisco for a few gay people. I went from these Italian, New Jersey psychopaths to San Francisco, peace and love. ‘

As a teenager, Rogan moved back to Newton, Massachusetts, where he had to struggle with a new high school and took up karate to feel more confident.

“I was really afraid to be a loser. That was my No. 1 fear of life,” he recalled in 2014. “I was afraid of the future. In martial art not only gave me self -confidence, but also a different perspective of myself and what I was capable of. I knew that I could do something that I was afraid of.

“I don’t think I would have ever become that if I didn’t learn in very early martial arts. I think the best decision I have ever made in my whole life was to dive into something so incredibly difficult. ‘

In fact, it was an experience that would prove to be decisive for the landing of Rogan as an appearance as an ultimate combat championship commentator in which he quickly made his name.

At that time, a 35-year-old Rogan as an actor and stand-up comedian met the end and he had just started to host the NBC Gameshow Fear-Factor.

But he noticed the UFC boss Dana White, who had taken control of the fighting championship last year.

White had packed VHS bands to switch from New York to the new UFC headquarters in Las Vegas. He happened to play one and showed that Rogan was interviewed about the fear factor. But as White reminds, everything he would talk about, UFC … and what UFC fighter would do the martial artists in the cinema. I was like “that’s exactly what I need”.

Donald Trump comprises Rogan in Madison Square Garden, days after his confirmation of the election victory

Rogan and Ritzel imaged that Trump’s inauguration in Washington in January

Rogan was so passionate about the championships that his first 13 appearances were free of colored comments. But he quickly established himself as a expert and popular moderator.

“Nobody understood the floor game early on,” said White, a narrow Trump -allied self, last year. ‘Rogan would guide you through what happened literally before it would happen.

“He would tell them the setup what would come next, and he would articulate it perfectly and excellently and the people at home began to understand. The effects that Joe Rogan had on this sport is immeasurable. ‘

Rogan continued to organize the Fear factor until 2006 when he got into a fight with a candidate whose wife Rogan had criticized a rival. The show was canceled in the same year for reasons not related.

But he remained an outstanding component at UFC, in which his theater reactions on Knockouts made him viral.

In 2021 he interviewed Conor McGregor minutes after the bloody UFC fighter had broken his leg during a game. Then, a year later Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman.

But his stratospheric climb to the superstar came through his podcast The Joe Rogan experienceHe started in 2009. He quickly found a dynamic and had signed a contract with the Radio Service Siriusxm within two years.

Then he did the great time in 2020: signing of an amazing contract with 200 million US dollars with Spotify, where he now has 14.5 million followers together with 20 million YouTube subscribers.

And with these numbers there was great influence – and not to mention controversy. On the show, Rogan Wild theorized why the moon landings could be wrong, whether Egyptians really built the pyramids, and he was even accused of transferring the views of anti-accin views during the pandemic.

Rogan’s guests on his show range from Meta -CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) to the North Korean traditional recipient Yeonmi Park (right)

Rogan was so passionate about the championships that his first 13 appearances were free of colored comments. But he quickly established himself as a expert and popular moderator

In 2021 he interviewed Conor McGregor minutes after the bloody UFC fighter had broken his leg during a game

The former guests included scientists, astrophysicists and authors such as the North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk and the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg.

In 2019, it was assumed that he could be the royal maker of the Democrats after interviewing Bernie Sanders and promoted him as the party’s candidate in the upcoming elections.

But five years later, his political ideology shifted – Rogan interviewed Rogan like Trump and Elon Musk.

Trump absolutely wanted to land Rogan’s confirmation in the 2024 elections and urged him to support the GOP during his three-hour podcast interview. But Rogan only granted it in the 11th hour – and only after Rogan and Trump’s democratic competitor Kamala Harris could not agree to an equivalent appearance.

“Joe Rogan just supported me, isn’t that great?” Trump said on the evening before the election after learning the news in Pittsburgh. “He doesn’t do that, he doesn’t do that. And he tends to be a little more liberal than some of the people in this room. ‘

Rogan and his wife Jessica Ditzel, a cocktail waiter, whom he married in 2009, were guests of honor when the president was inaugurated in January.

Rogan’s wild reactions have often become viral when he calls dramatic UFC fights

Rogan initially made a name for himself as a stand-up comedian

And yet it seems that cracks begin to show.

Rogan made headlines last week after criticizing Trump’s mass migration policy and said that innocent people could sparked in a “hell on earth”.

“You have to be afraid that people who are not criminals, such as, Lasso, sent and sent to El Salvador prisons. This is somehow crazy that this could be possible. It’s terrible, ”he warned.

However, all of this means little for Rogan’s alienated family in Newark.

In the sleepy suburb of Kearny, in which only 40,000 people live, Manhattan’s skyline dipped big and Trump flags flutter in front of houses. You wonder how many residents know that the old man, who is always in a Pittsburgh Steelers jacket and cap, is indeed Rogan’s father.

“I’m in my 80s, I’m in the rearview mirror,” said Joseph Sr. in 2022. “But I would like to see him. I would definitely sit down with him because he has to listen to my side of the story. He never asked, didn’t know what to say. He doesn’t know how much it hurt me and what I had to go through. ‘