Joe Rogan found himself in an uncomfortable position recently after mixing up two separate events on air, then dedicating significant airtime to explaining himself in a way that raised more questions than it answered.
The gaffe happened when Rogan appeared on a podcast with Theo Von and recalled being out in the mountains of Utah elk hunting when his phone blew up with messages about the Charlie Kirk incident.
The problem? He was actually in the middle of recording a podcast with Charlie Sheen when news of the Kirk incident broke. It was during a bathroom break that the information came through. The Utah story, it turns out, was connected to a separate and unrelated event involving Jimmy Kimmel.
On its own, this is a fairly minor mix-up. People confuse details all the time, especially someone who records as many conversations as Rogan does.
He acknowledged as much when clearing things up, saying, “When I did the podcast the other day, it seemed like I was saying that I was in the mountains when Charlie Kirk got hit. I probably was saying that. I was exhausted when I did that show last week.”
But rather than leaving it there, Rogan brought it up in the opening minutes of his next episode, with Arsenio Hall as a guest, and went into significant detail about why his memory had failed him.
He explained that he had stayed up too late after a Tuesday night show, that he carves out alone time after his family goes to bed, and that his memory without proper rest is, in his words, “like a room that’s filled with boxes and files and I don’t know where the everything is.”
He also revealed that he had stopped taking creatine in the weeks leading up to a blood test, which he believes contributed to his mental fog. “It wasn’t a lie,” he said. “It’s just my brain sucks when I don’t get sleep and I’m not going to do that anymore.”
All of that would be fairly unremarkable, except for one detail. Throughout the same conversation, Rogan recommended Alpha Brain to Hall as a tool for memory issues, the same supplement he has promoted for over 16 years and helped design.
At no point did he suggest that Alpha Brain might have helped him avoid his own very public memory lapse. Instead, he pointed to sleep and creatine as the real factors behind sharp cognitive performance.
