‘Social Outcast’ Joe Rogan Narrates Why He Was a Weird Kid in High School: “I Avoided All That”

Joe Rogan is one of the most loved individuals in the UFC world even after not being a fighter in the promotion. Rogan captured the attention of many by being a commentator for the promotion who let the fighters speak their hearts out in their most precious moments. However, people around the globe know Rogan best through his show, “Joe Rogan Experience.”

The 55-year-old talks about anything and everything under the sun in his show. Furthermore, the biggest highlight of the podcast is the moments where Rogan opens up about his own life and personal experiences. The #1949 episode of the show was one such, where the JRE host shared some details from his high school days. The audience was highly surprised to hear from the UFC commentator that he was socially awkward as a kid.

Joe Rogan talks about his socially awkward days

In the #1949 episode of JRE, Rogan was talking to comedian and podcaster Russell Brand. When the ‘Stay Free with Russell Brand’ podcast host talked about his childhood, the 55-year-old could not resist talking about his “weird kid” days.

Rogan said, “I have found martial arts at a very young age, and so discipline became my addiction. And I got very, very, very fortunate that I went in that direction because I grew up to a lot of guys that drank and did a lot of drugs. They went off their way and I didn’t. I avoided all that throughout high school.“

Talking further on the topic, Rogan added, “I barely partied in high school. I got drunk a couple of times. I smoked pot a couple of times and that was it all throughout High School. My high school was filled with discipline and all I did was train. I was a very weird kid in that regard like socially. I was kind of an outcast. But, I found through that path. It was like there was a clear road where I could be a better person and a happier person.“

The UFC commentator as a young athlete

The fans could understand the truth behind the commentator’s words. He was indeed a successful MMA fighter when he was young. Rogan shifted his complete focus to martial arts when he was in his boyhood days. Back then, the 55-year-old was scared to lose against anyone, hence he decided to build a stronger fighter within him. 

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Rogan stepped into the MMA world by taking training in karate at 14 and later in Taekwondo. At the age of nineteen, he won the US Open Championship Taekwondo tournament in the lightweight division. Rogan was Massachusetts’s state champion for four long years and took up kickboxing. However, due to health concerns, the commentator retired from active competition when he was just twenty-one.

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