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Ben McAleer
Joe Rogan left podcast guests stunned when he named the most brutal job of his career. As the host of The Joe Rogan Experience, the 58-year-old knows a thing or two about using his voice.
His podcast has been the most streamed on Spotify since 2020, and has hosted a number of illustrious guests, including Elon Musk, Edward Snowden, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
However, even hosting a number of high-profile stars wasn’t the most brutal job that Rogan has had in his career, which is saying something when you’ve interviewed the world’s richest man and the current US President.
Rather, the UFC commentator has admitted that the toughest job he has ever had came when carrying out his work for video games.
When asked about doing voiceovers for UFC 2 on Xbox One and Playstation 4 on fighterforge, Rogen said: “Doing the voiceover for that [UFC 2] was one of the most brutal jobs I’ve ever had. It’s so long cause you have these lists of all these things that can possibly happen and all these fighters’ names and all these different scenarios.”
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And when Rogan was quizzed how long it takes to carry out the voiceover work, he replied: “Hours and hours and hours, many, many, many, many days. It’s also a huge strain on your voice cause the way you’re talking during the UFC fight, it’s like you’re pushing yourself.”
Rogan has worked on no fewer than five UFC games, ranging from 2009 to 2018, while he’s appeared in a new of films and TV shows, including Bright, The Ultimate Fighter and The Comedy Store.
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However, it’s the shocking revelation about his voiceover work on the video game that caught those on fightingforge off guard.
Since his work in 2018, Rogan hasn’t featured on another UFC game since, while for UFC 3, his commentary lines were taken from real UFC fights and spliced together.
Creative director Brian Hayes announced in 2020 that he won’t feature on the game due to the Rogan’s dislike for providing his own voiceover as the main reason for his omission.
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“He was open with us from the very beginning that he hated his experience of doing voiceover on previous iterations of other UFC games, and things were no different for us,” Hayes said.
“He hated doing voiceover on these games as well. That has nothing to do with us in particular, or, you know, our games versus other games.
“He just does not like sitting in a booth reading lines for hours at a time.”