Joe Rogan Experience #2463 - Steve-O

TL;DR

Steve-O catches up with Joe Rogan, covering his career highs, wild injuries, and life lessons learned from years of chaos.

Key Points

• 1.Steve-O's most successful year was 2022 — more than double his next best year — driven by Jackass Forever hitting #1, post-pandemic revenge spending, stimulus money, and no interest rates.
• 2.He has a dick tattoo on his right eyebrow drawn by Post Malone, which he's treating as an experiment to see how long he lasts before lasering it off.
• 3.Steve-O spent 2024–2025 deliberately addressing audience criticism he agreed with, including backing off heavy merch promotion and stopping his habit of angrily ejecting hecklers from shows.
• 4.He won a MrBeast competition involving 30 celebrities — including Matt Rife, Diplo, Howie Mandel, and the Bella Twins — competing to win a million dollars for charity.
• 5.Jean-Claude Van Damme's judo legend Jean Leel choked out the entire Jackass cast one by one in 2002 — deemed too dark even for Jackass due to the twitching.
• 6.Ryan Dunn, inspired by watching Jean Leel, began choking out audience members at Steve-O's tours with zero combat sports background whatsoever.
• 7.Steve-O got choked out six times in one day by Ryan Dunn after three days on cocaine, with the final drop landing him directly on his face and breaking a tooth.
• 8.He was knocked unconscious on WWE Monday Night Raw by a Samoan wrestler (the "Samoan Bulldozer") who elbowed him after Steve-O kept moving post-splash, not knowing he was supposed to stay still.
• 9.On the Jackass Forever giant horse treadmill stunt, Steve-O suffered what may have been his worst concussion — knocked out cold and unresponsive while Knoxville bled from the head beside him.
• 10.Steve-O's testosterone levels tested at around 300 (low), he was prescribed TRT by Transcend but kept forgetting to take it and stopped, noticing little difference either way.
• 11.Hulk Hogan came on Rogan's podcast visibly diminished — six inches shorter from multiple back surgeries caused by repeatedly dropping his 300+ lb body on his tailbone for the elbow drop move.
• 12.Joe credits the Stephan Bonner vs. Forest Griffin fight on the Spike TV Ultimate Fighter premiere with turning the UFC mainstream, with viewership peaking at 6–7 million mid-broadcast as people called friends to tune in.
• 13.Steve-O became an NFL fan through the NFL YouTube channel's condensed 8–16 minute game recaps, but criticizes thumbnails that spoil outcomes — the same problem Joe once complained to Dana White about with UFC thumbnails.
• 14.HBO Boxing is remembered as the gold standard of combat sports broadcasting — Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant, and Roy Jones Jr. — with Joe expressing disbelief they ever shut it down.
• 15.Steve-O regrets putting his multimedia comedy special behind a paywall like Andrew Schulz's "The Moment," saying free distribution would have built far more long-term value despite the production costs.