This film or show by John G. Avildsen has come up 2 times on Joe Rogan. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Joe Rogan. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-06-27 and the most recent from 2025-09-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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Joe Rogan Experience #2384 - Mark Kerr
“Rocky one was real... I drank a raw egg and I ran around the block as soon as I got home... that was a great movie.”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Mark Kerr: Pioneering heavyweight MMA fighter and two-time ADCC champion who dominated the early UFC and Japan's Pride organization in the late 1990s. His struggles with opioid and alcohol addiction were documented in the 2002 HBO film 'The Smashing Machine' and dramatized in the 2025 movie of the same name starring Dwayne Johnson. MMA pioneer Mark Kerr tells Joe Rogan how elite wrestling conquered fighting, and opens up about addiction, sobriety, and seeing his life turned into a movie.
Joe Rogan Experience #1934 - Lex Fridman
“you know Rocky is better I think for that really I'm a sucker for Rocky the whole the whole all the whole soundtrack”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Lex Fridman: AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast. Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan riff on ChatGPT, AI's future, aliens, chess cheating, crypto, Twitter, and what makes us human.
