Joe Rogan Refused to Submit His Show For Best Podcast At The Golden Globes Keegan KellyJanuary 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM 0 Some podcast listeners thought that the Golden Globes grew a pair when they left The Joe Rogan Experience out of the nominations for the firstever Best Podcast award. Others thought they were a bunch of woke leftist crybabies who couldn't handle Rogan's bravery and honesty. The real reason is, somehow, much, much stupider.
- - Joe Rogan Refused to Submit His Show For Best Podcast At The Golden Globes
Keegan KellyJanuary 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Some podcast listeners thought that the Golden Globes grew a pair when they left The Joe Rogan Experience out of the nominations for the first-ever Best Podcast award. Others thought they were a bunch of woke leftist crybabies who couldn't handle Rogan's bravery and honesty. The real reason is, somehow, much, much stupider.
When you strip away all the pomp and circumstance of awards season in Hollywood, there really isn't much substance left to each ceremony – a bunch of rich and famous people show up to a theater wearing expensive clothes and get their picture taken, then they sit around for four hours, waiting to see if they'll get to go home with a shiny desk toy. At least the Golden Globes serves dinner during the laborious formalities – but, let's be real, the food at big events like that is never worth $500 per plate.
So when submissions opened up for the 83rd Golden Globes, Rogan turned down the opportunity to throw his hat in the octagon, or so he said on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
Rogan told his guest Bert Kreischer that, as soon as he learned it would cost him $500 to be considered for the Best Podcast category, he turned down the offer to submit JRE for a Golden Globe nomination, which is completely fine by us – we can't imagine how annoying, disinformative and unfunny his acceptance speech would be.
"A lot of people say, 'Why wasn't Joe Rogan nominated for the Golden Globes? Why did Amy Poehler win?' I didn't submit," Rogan explained to Kreischer. "They asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes and you had to pay $500. And the $500 is like for paperwork or whatever. I said, 'No.'"
Amy Poehler's podcast Good Hang took home the Golden Globe for Best Podcast after Poehler promised to honor male comedians who came before her by doing "the bare minimum," but Rogan claimed that he's never listened to the inaugural award-winning podcast. "I'm sure it's good. It won. I'm sure someone must love it," Rogan said of Good Hang, "If it sucked, they would give it to someone else, right?"
But while Rogan has never streamed Good Hang, like any good Manosphere magnate, he was more than ready to weigh in on a topic about which he knew nearly nothing. "I just know that Amy Poehler won and a lot of people are upset," Rogan said of Poehler's achievement "'She's had a podcast for six months and she won. Great, you gave it to a famous person.' Which, you know, in that world that's what they do."
"I don't want to be a part of that," Rogan repeated of the Golden Globes, "I don't care. You're just a group of people that just decide, all of a sudden, that you're going to give an award out? 'I get a trophy'? F--- off!"
Rogan claimed that the Golden Globes couldn't possibly honor him more than the numbers already have, seeing as JRE has long topped the streaming charts for podcasts. "You can't tell me I didn't win. I've been number one for six years in a row," Rogan said of his ranking. "All of sudden, you're going to have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedos and you're going to say now I'm not number one? F--- off. I don't care that I'm number one, but I am, in fact, number one."
Of course, Rogan dropped a lot of impassioned f-bombs for someone who claimed that he didn't care about the award, and his insinuation that Poehler only won the Golden Globe because of her A-list status would definitely make more sense if it came from someone who was insecure about the possibility that, had he submitted for the category, he wouldn't have won it – or, worse, wouldn't have even been nominated.
While Rogan's streaming numbers do speak for themselves, he's also missing the entire point of ceremonies like the Golden Globes – if every award just went to the movie, TV show or podcast in the category that had the highest gross, then it wouldn't be about honoring artistic contributions to each medium, only commercial ones. And, more importantly, there would be no need for a televised ceremony, since we can all access Box Office Mojo from home.
But at the end of the day, it's kind of Rogan to reveal the exact dollar amount of the Golden Globes entry fee, so, for all the Good Hang fans who might be upset at Rogan side-eyeing Poehler, find joy in the fact that her ex-husband paid $500 just to lose to her.
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Published: January 29, 2026 at 06:37PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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