Joe Rogan admits to paying his teen daughter $1,000 per minute to attempt extreme challenge

Daily Mail​

25-06-2025

Joe Rogan has revealed that he once paid his daughter and her friends $1,000 per minute if they could endure an extreme challenge – much to the shock of the pals' parents.
The 57-year-old podcaster shares two teenage daughters – Lola, 17, and Rosy, 15 – and adopted daughter, Kayja Rose, with his wife, former model Jessica Rogan.
Giving listeners a glimpse into his life as a father, Rogan recalled how he once tasked one of his daughters and her pals with seeing how long they could last in his cold plunge pool.
'I paid my daughter and her friends $1,000 for every minute they can go in there for,' he recounted.
'Eleven-year-olds freezing their a** off trying to get a thousand bucks.
'I peeled off 10 crisp hundreds and they were laughing, giggling and the parents were like "what are you doing?!"
'It's fine! It's fun, everybody had a good time, I did it for fun.'
According to SportBible, Rogan said in another episode: 'I gave three kids a thousand bucks and the parents were like, "what the f***!"
'But they earned it, I just wanted to show them that they could do it.
'These kids were so pumped, for them that's a hard thing to do and I'm showing them that they can do this very difficult thing.'
Ice baths have also surged in popularity in recent years, amid claims they can boost circulation and improve heart health.
Plunging into cold water triggers the body's cold shock response, where a sudden drop in temperature leads to a surge in adrenaline, noradrenaline and other hormones that boost feelings of alertness.
This process is believed to be behind the alleged health benefits.
Of course, $1,000 per minute is just chump change for Rogan, whose net worth is estimated to be around the $200 million mark.
In March, Rogan declared he would never discuss his 'weird' theories about the universe with his wife and children.
He married his wife Jessica in 2009 and adopted her daughter from a previous relationship.
During an episode about human existence with comedian Andrew Schultz, Rogan asked his guest: 'How do you feel about this world that we're living in, this world that seems more and more like it's not real? More and more like it's a f***ing simulation?'
Rogan went on to explain he is 'kind of convinced' humans are living in a computer-generated environment like in the Matrix.
'There's something more to reality than what meets the eye, there's more to it than what you can put on a scale or what you can put a ruler to. There's more to this thing,' he said.
'This thing's made out of like, some very bizarre energy that's attached to consciousness, that's what I think.'
Bewildered, Schultz asked the podcaster what he was talking about.
'It's inevitable that one day they will achieve a simulation that is indiscernible from reality. No doubt about it,' Rogan explained. 'They've gotten real close.'
He then went on to pose a series of rhetorical questions to his stunned guest.
'Is that the ultimate progression of technology? Is the ultimate progression of technology transcending physical reality and becoming completely digital life?
'So if that is possible, how do we know that it hasn't already happened? How can we know if it hasn't already happened?'
Eventually, Schultz asked Rogan whether he ever brings this theory up to his wife and kids - to which the comedian responded: 'No, that's too weird to talk to kids about.'