“Only Two Times in the History of the Show…”: Joe Rogan Recalls Mind-Boggling Instances During His Fear Factor Stint That Forced Him to Say “Don’t Do It”

Joe Rogan‘s accomplishments in his professional career are surely ones that can leave even the most versatile of humans in awe. From his success as a stand-up comedian to hosting one of the biggest platforms on the internet, the 55-year-old has made the most of every opportunity in his career. And although his immense success in these roles has brought him huge recognition, it was his stint with Fear Factor that gave him the initial push into public life.

Now Rogan too recognizes the opportunities that the show created for him. Thus, he never hesitates in bringing up the show and talking about it with the multitude of guests on his podcasts. While doing that, the UFC commentator happened to cover a rather interesting topic regarding the stunt show. Speaking to Michael Malice in episode no. 1952, he recalled a couple of horrific stunts that were so gut-wrenching he ended up walking up to the producers telling them to not go ahead with it.

Joe Rogan recalls instances when he had to approach the producers of Fear Factor

If you are a faint-hearted individual, the next descriptions by Rogan are clearly not for you. Considering that he is an avid martial artist and a BJJ black belt and yet found it incredibly scary, speaks volumes of the type of risk-filled stunts that the team at Fear Factor pulled.

Recalling that there were only a few times when he felt that the stunts were a bit too much even for the show’s standards, Rogan said, “I know it was only two times in the history of the show that I went to the producers. I’m like ‘don’t do it’.”

He mentioned one of them was bull riding, which is clearly one of the scariest ever ‘sport’ to be organized. Since a small mistake could lead to serious injuries, Rogan‘s feelings were clearly justified.

“One of them was bull riding. We are gonna have these people ride bulls.” He further added, “And they are in the cage [animal noises] trying to get out of the cage. I’m like, don’t do this.” 

Despite it sounding not too dangerous, Rogan‘s expression clearly meant that it did pose an injury threat.

But it was his next recollection that shocked Malice. It might be safe to say that listeners too must have felt their gut wrench at it. The former Fear Factor host claimed that during an episode of the show, contestants were made to drink something extremely disturbing as a part of the stunt.

“The other one was drinking c*m. They had to drink donkey c*m.” said the 55-year-old as his guest expressed his disgust and shock.

Rogan claims one contestant managed to barely escape during shocking stunt 

Going back to the bull stunt that Rogan claimed was extremely dangerous; he added that although no one was harmed, one particular contestant came scarily close to getting hurt. He recalled it to be a frail woman who was almost thrown around by the bull.

“Everyone was okay luckily. But this one light girl, she was like 100 pounds. This thing f**king launched her through the air and kicked backward and almost hit her head.” He recollected.

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For folks wishing to give this episode a listen, the full episode of this conversation is available on Spotify.

Do you think the producers at Fear Factor went too far with their freaky ideas? Was Rogan wrong in telling them to not do such stunts on the show? What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below.

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