Joe Rogan recently revealed he has decided to make a huge change to his lifestyle by giving up alcohol – a move which follows in the footsteps of Donald Trump.
The president has famously steered clear of booze after witnessing first-hand the dangers of alcohol through his brother Fred Jr. who battled with addiction issues.
Rogan appears to have found his own reasons to join Trump as a teetotaler, admitting on a recent episode of his popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience that he quit drinking a month ago due to concerns around its impact on his health.
The UFC host and former Fear Factor star delved into the topic during a recent episode featuring comedian Ron White who opened up about his experience with addiction, revealing that quit drinking four years ago.
White admitted that he didn’t know Rogan had given up alcohol, and Rogan replied, ‘Yeah, I think I’m done.’
He continued: ‘For no reason other than it’s not good for you. No, I didn’t have to. I enjoyed it.’
White joked that he knew Rogan ‘had a good time’ with alcohol, and Rogan confessed that the ‘days after’ a night of drinking was ‘just too rough.’
‘And I’m like – what kind of a moron who takes such good care of his body is poisoning himself a couple of days a week for fun, ya know, why am I doing that?’ he added.
Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan, 57, revealed on a recent episode of his podcast that he decided to quit drinking alcohol
Rogan may be taking a page out of Trump’s playbook who candidly spoke about his decision not to drink, citing his brother Fred’s addiction issues as one of the reasons
Rogan then laughed and admitted that he ‘has the same amount of fun’ without alcohol.
White then poked fun at Rogan, noting that ‘there’s more than one way to skin a cat,’ pointing out that they haven’t quit every substance.
The two comedians also discussed ayahuasca, a psychoactive substance that can be found in the Amazon which White credits to have helped him abandon the booze.
Trump revealed last summer on Theo Von’s podcast that his older brother Fred Jr. had warned him against substances before he died at the age of 42 from a heart attack caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
The president feared that if he drank he would develop an addiction like Fred.
While devastated to lose his sibling, Trump confessed that he was shocked his brother lived as long as he did.
‘I just tell people, “It’s so tragic,” just don’t drink, don’t drink and you’re not going to have a problem,’ Trump told Von.
The death of Trump’s older brother is one of the signal events in the president’s life, and coincided with his own ultimate rise to take over his father’s business.
In a candid interview with Theo Von during his presidential campaign, Trump confessed he was shocked his brother lived as long as he did while he battled alcoholism
The president has famously steered clear of booze after witnessing first-hand the dangers of alcohol through his brother Fred Jr. (pictured) who battled with addiction issues
Trump, who made a point not to drink and cites his brother’s death as a reason, previously said he fears a genetic link to a condition that is increasingly being studied as a disease.
‘Let’s say I started drinking, it’s very possible I wouldn’t be talking to you right now,’ Trump said. ‘There is something about the genetic effect.’
Trump said Fred Jr. went to rehab several times, but it isn’t clear he went to the kind of long-term program that has become common today.
‘I don’t think it was necessarily a stay-over rehab because he lived in the house [in Queens]. I don’t remember it as being a stay-over. But I spent a lot of times with Fred,’ Trump said.
‘I used to ask, “Is it the taste, or what is it?” He didn’t know what to say about it because, frankly, it was just something that he liked.’
The pair’s decision not to drink aligns with a growing trend of giving up alcohol.
A 2024 Gallup Poll found that 45 percent of Americans believe drinking daily is bad for your health – a six percentage point increase from 2023.
Rogan has discussed health issues frequently on his show, including in an episode last fall when he had Doctors Casey and Calley Means on his show.
The doctors said that America was leading the world in cancers in young people and that early-onset dementia had tripled since 2012.
They also discussed the potential harm of consuming food with pesticides that are banned in Europe but allowed in the US.