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“I Am No Dave Portnoy”: Joe Rogan’s Introduction of “Sommelier of Pizza” Leaves Elon Musk Awestruck

Published 11/01/2023, 6:31 AM EDT

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Joe Rogan has had many notable guests on his podcast. The Joe Rogan Experience has 2,054 episodes out on Spotify. Tesla, X, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk returned as the guest for the latest of them. As the pair enjoyed a slice apiece of pizza, the conversation turned to its specific characteristics. Rogan settled for calling the pizza excellent. Simultaneously, he confessed he was not Dave Portnoy.

Dave Portnoy’s love for pizza is no secret. About 5,000 people showed up in the rain for the “One Bite Pizza Festival” he organized in the recent past. The event in question brought a bunch of small pizza business owners into the limelight. Though that had its critics, Portnoy came out on top in the end. In fact, he got a worthy mention on the Joe Rogan Experience in front of an esteemed company.

The intricacies of Dave Portnoy’s Pizza analysis

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Rated a remarkable 8.6 by IMDb, the Joe Rogan Experience has roughly 14.9 million subscribers and 3.0 billion views overall. Portnoy, in fact, shared the snippet of the podcast where he was mentioned as part of a story on Instagram. He captioned it with the words, “Just couple of fellas eating pizza talking about me @joerogan.” In that clip, while terming the pizza he consumed excellent, Rogan said, I’m no Dave Portnoy, our pizza analyst, who probably – I’m not going to rate it, it’s excellent.”

Rogan dived deeper into Dave Portnoy’s penchant for analyzing pizza upon Musk’s asking. He elaborated upon the same as much as he could by himself. Rogan impressed upon his guest the intricacies involved in Portnoy’s method. After confirming Musk had yet to see videos of Portnoy analyzing pizza, he said, He’s got like, a whole method. He’s got a number system. He’s into the crust and the flop and all these different things.” Rogan needed a little assistance to go further into that subject.

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A sommelier of pizza, as per Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan, with the assistance of someone off-camera, clarified further. He said, Everybody knows the rules, one bite. He bites into it and he starts nodding his head and he’s basically like a sommelier of pizza.” Rogan’s description had Elon Musk shocked. He laughed and uttered words indicating agreement throughout the former’s description of Dave Portnoy’s process. Musk was new to the concept of eating pizza in that manner.

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The self-styled El Presidente might have secured himself another admirer in Elon Musk, courtesy of Joe Rogan. Musk’s net worth is estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. According to CBS News, it recently fell to $193 billion. It remains to be seen what Musk makes of Dave Portnoy’s method. One thing is sure. There are few better radars for Portnoy to register a blip on this Earth.

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Anirudh Haridas is a US Sports writer at EssentiallySports. A staunch sports fan, Anirudh brings his experience as a Soccer content writer. A diehard fan of ice hockey, Anirudh delved into the US sports arena, driven by the phenomenal pace of the sport.
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