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206-415: Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator , comedian, actor, and former television host. He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience , a podcast in which he discusses current events, comedy, politics, aliens, religion, philosophy, science, martial arts, and hobbies with celebrity guests. His podcast channel is one of the most influential and most watched podcasts in
412-590: A View -style women's show". In December 1999, he recorded his first stand-up comedy album in two shows at the Comedy Connection at Faneuil Hall in Boston, which was released as I'm Gonna Be Dead Some Day... in August 2000. It received national exposure on The Howard Stern Show and downloads from Napster . "Voodoo Punanny", a song Rogan wrote after Warner suggested to produce a song they could play on
618-598: A STEM field were minority or female. By 2015, UMass Boston students came from 140 different nations and spoke 90 different languages. On January 26, 2015, the university opened its first new academic building since the Columbia Point campus was built, a research facility named the Integrated Sciences Complex. On March 30, 2015, the dedication ceremony for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for
824-593: A workforce pipeline program in the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences. In December 2023, New Balance announced a $ 10 million grant to expand a sports leadership program at the university into a full institute on the campus that the company provided a $ 5 million grant to create in 2018. Pursuant to a report issued by the Boston Public Health Commission , Chancellor Suárez-Orozco and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced
1030-475: A "very dumbed-down, censored version" of himself. Rogan befriended fellow cast member Phil Hartman , who confided his marital problems to him. Rogan claimed he tried to persuade Hartman to divorce his wife five times, but "he loved his kids and didn't want to leave." In 1998, Hartman was murdered by his wife. The loss affected Rogan's ability to perform stand-up, and he canceled a week of scheduled gigs. Rogan later saw acting as an easy job, but grew tired of "playing
1236-572: A $ 2.5 million partnership between the university and the Boston Public Schools in March 2024 to create a behavioral health training program to place 263 UMass Boston students in district schools and create a workforce pipeline for BPS students seeking behavioral health careers. In September 2024, university administration announced a new admissions and transfer program in partnership with Bunker Hill Community College . UMass Boston
1442-524: A $ 50 million personal donation to the UMass System (the largest in its history) by the System Board of Trustees Chair and his wife. In January 2023, the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences received $ 3 million in federal funding for a home care digital and simulation lab. In July 2023, UMass Boston and Mass General Brigham announced an agreement to provide $ 20 million in funding for
1648-550: A 174-page climate change adaptation report for the Boston Harbor coastline in Dorchester with a section on Columbia Point and Morrissey Boulevard. UMass Boston's Institute for New England Native American Studies and Institute for Community Inclusion (UMass Boston's joint program with Boston Children's Hospital that is part of the national Association of University Centers on Disabilities ) have their main offices on
1854-502: A 5-year campus reserve ratio estimate were the cause of the $ 26 million in budget reductions implemented by interim Chancellor Barry Mills and that the reductions were made at the direction of the UMass Central Office. Additionally, the white paper states that the 2017 audit was not conducted in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards or reported in accordance with auditing standards , and that
2060-523: A UMass System Board of Trustees meeting, UMass Boston faculty and students protested decisions by university administration to cut offerings of courses (many required for graduation) in the upcoming summer semester, as well as other programs and to make expense adjustments which reduced the deficit to approximately $ 6 million or $ 7 million. On July 1, 2017, Barry Mills became interim chancellor after Keith Motley's resignation. A coalition of UMass Boston administrative staff, faculty, and students formed (called
2266-590: A blog entry on his website accusing comedian Carlos Mencia of joke thievery , a claim he had made since 1993. The situation culminated in February 2007 when Rogan confronted Mencia on stage at The Comedy Store in Hollywood. A video of the incident was uploaded onto YouTube and included evidence and comments from other comedians, including George Lopez , "The Reverend" Bob Levy , Bobby Lee , and Ari Shaffir . The incident led to Rogan's talent agent expelling him as
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#17327872193702472-447: A cage fight. Rogan trained for the event for five months before Snipes backed out following an investigation by the IRS for alleged tax evasion . Rogan believed Snipes needed a quick payout to alleviate his debt. After Fear Factor , Rogan focused his career on his stand-up comedy, as concentrating on television had made him feel lazy and uninspired to work on new material for his act. With
2678-507: A client of The Gersh Agency , who also managed Mencia, and his ban from The Comedy Store, causing him to relocate his regular venue to the Hollywood Improv Comedy Club . Rogan later said that every comic he had talked to was happy and thankful that he did it, and went on to sign with William Morris Agency . In April 2007, Comedy Central Records released Rogan's fourth comedy special, Shiny Happy Jihad . The set
2884-479: A continuing series of fighting tournaments—a franchise, rather than a one-night stand." With no weight classes, fighters often faced significantly larger or taller opponents. Keith "The Giant Killer" Hackney faced Emmanuel Yarbrough at UFC 3 with a 9-inch height and 400 pounds (180 kg) weight disadvantage. During this early phase of the organization, the UFC showcased a bevy of styles and fighters. Aside from
3090-685: A corporate, continuing, and distance learning program. There are eleven schools and colleges at UMass Boston: the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, School for the Environment, College of Management, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, College of Public and Community Service, College of Education and Human Development, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies , School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, Honors College, and College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS). The university
3296-795: A counterproposal for a 15-acre campus south of where John Hancock Tower was being built that the BRA rejected. Architectural consultants of the university also scouted land near North Station and adjacent to the Boston Garden that was immediately opposed both by the ownership of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation that owned the Boston Bruins (who threatened to move the team out of the city) and Boston Mayor Kevin White . In August 1968, after Francis L. Broderick
3502-595: A deal to buy UFC's DVD rights from Lionsgate for an additional two million dollars. With ties to the Nevada State Athletic Commission (Lorenzo Fertitta was a former member of the NSAC), Zuffa secured sanctioning in Nevada in 2001. Shortly thereafter, the UFC returned to pay-per-view cable television, with UFC 33 featuring three championship bouts. The UFC slowly rose in popularity after
3708-523: A download on his website for $ 5, following Louis C.K. 's example. In 2013, Rogan hosted the television show Joe Rogan Questions Everything on the SyFy network, which aired for six episodes. The show covered topics discussed on his podcasts, including the existence of Bigfoot and UFOs , and featured several comedians, experts, and scientists with the aim of trying to "put some subjects to bed ... with an open-minded perspective". SyFy agreed to produce
3914-585: A final counterproposal (while another rally at the Massachusetts State House of 2,500 faculty and students still demanded a Copley Square or Park Square location). In November 1968, Chancellor Broderick proposed a scattered-site campus of office buildings situated along the MBTA's Green Line in the South End that would be jointly owned by the university and businesses while retaining
4120-462: A financial disaster. Zuffa bought select assets from WFA, including select fighter contracts, as well as trademarks and other intellectual property. The sport's popularity was also noticed by the sports betting community as BodogLife.com, an online gambling site, stated in July 2007 that in 2007 UFC would surpass boxing for the first time in terms of betting revenues. In fact, the UFC had already broken
4326-455: A form of professional wrestling which had more realistic-looking moves and matches while deemphasizing theatrical elements. Promotions like Shooto and Pancrase discarded the scripts and were already putting on hybrid fighting shows with real fights by the time the UFC was founded. This culminated in the creation of Pride Fighting Championships in 1997. At its height, Pride was the world's most popular MMA promotion, and helped to popularize
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#17327872193704532-500: A full-time comedian, he was "scratching and grinding" for money and stayed with his grandfather in Newark for the first six months. Rogan later cited Richard Jeni , Lenny Bruce , Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks as comedy influences. In 1994, Rogan relocated to Los Angeles, where his first national television spot followed on the MTV comedy show Half-Hour Comedy Hour . The appearance led to
4738-540: A general academic building, and the following week, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts announced that he would accelerate his plans to construct the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Columbia Point next to his brother's presidential library . In December 2009, a report prepared for the state government on the 25-year master plan was released outlining future campus development and construction projects. By 2013, with
4944-649: A global multi-billion-dollar enterprise. The UFC was founded by businessman Art Davie and Brazilian martial artist Rorion Gracie , and the first event was held in 1993 at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver , Colorado. The purpose of the UFC's early competitions was to identify the most effective martial art in a contest with minimal rules and no weight classes between competitors of different fighting disciplines. In subsequent events, more rigorous rules were created and fighters began adopting effective techniques from more than one discipline, which indirectly helped create
5150-466: A group led by Endeavor, then known as William Morris Endeavor (WME–IMG), including Silver Lake Partners , Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and MSD Capital for US$ 4.025 billion. In 2021, Endeavor bought out Zuffa's other owners at a valuation of $ 1.7 billion. The organization had 578 fighters contracted as of January 2023. With a TV deal and expansion in Australia, Asia, Europe, and new markets within
5356-540: A job as a color commentator . However, Rogan initially declined as he "just wanted to go to the fights and drink". In 2002, White was able to hire Rogan for free in exchange for prime event tickets for him and his friends. After about 15 free gigs as a commentator, Rogan accepted pay for the job, working alongside Mike Goldberg until the end of 2016. Rogan won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award for Best Television Announcer twice, and
5562-506: A lack of discipline in its budgeting process, and a failure on the part of UMass Boston administration to appreciate the cost of the campus renewal construction projects on the university's operating budget led to the university's $ 30 million budget deficit, and in the same month, the university laid off 36 employees after laying off about 100 non-tenure track faculty earlier in the year. In April 2018, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mount Ida College administrators announced that
5768-437: A limousine, doing construction work, and assisting a private investigator . Meanwhile, his blue comedy style earned him gigs at bachelor parties and strip clubs. One night, he persuaded the owner of a comedy club in Boston to allow him to try a new five-minute routine. At the show was talent manager Jeff Sussman, who liked the act and offered to become his manager, which Rogan accepted. In 1990, Rogan moved to New York City. As
5974-471: A loser" as a child and said, "Martial arts gave me not just confidence, but also a different perspective of myself and what I was capable of. I knew that I could do something I was terrified of, and that was really difficult, and that I could excel at it. It was a big deal for me." Martial arts were "the first thing that ever gave me hope that I wasn't going to be a loser. So I really, really gravitated toward it." At age 14, he took up karate and started taekwondo
6180-408: A lot". In 2022, Rogan said Republican Ron DeSantis would be "a good president". On November 4, 2024, the day before the 2024 United States presidential election , Rogan endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump . He said that Elon Musk , who had been on Rogan's podcast a couple of days prior, "makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of
6386-498: A master plan to renew the campus. In 2010, a 385-pound section of the garage ceiling below Wheatley Hall fell. By December 14, 2007, Chancellor J. Keith Motley presented a 25-year master plan to the UMass System Board of Trustees, who accepted the plan in full. Included in the 25-year master plan was the proposal to erect the university's first residential facilities that would accommodate 2,000 students, but not with
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6592-469: A million years did these guys think they were creating a sport." Davie, in his 2014 book Is This Legal? , an account of the creation of the first UFC event, disputes the perception that the UFC was seen by WOW Promotions and SEG as a one-off, since SEG offered a five-year joint development deal to WOW. He says, "Clearly, both Campbell and Meyrowitz shared my unwavering belief that War of the Worlds would be
6798-508: A practice with roots in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships . Long time UFC referee John McCarthy said that he felt UFC 40 was the turning point in whether or not the sport of MMA would survive in America. "When that show (UFC 40) happened, I honestly felt like it was going to make it. Throughout the years, things were happening, and everything always looked bleak. It always looked like, this
7004-571: A press statement disputing the findings of the white paper. In September 2019, the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President addressed the UMass System Board of Trustees to protest the potential offering of equivalent programs at the Mount Ida campus that are already offered at the Boston campus. The following December, the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President presented the board with a petition from
7210-481: A reality television show featuring up-and-coming MMA fighters in competition for a six-figure UFC contract, with fighters eliminated from competition via exhibition mixed martial arts matches. It was pitched to several networks, each one rejecting the idea outright. Not until they approached Spike TV , with an offer to pay the $ 10 million production costs themselves, did they find an outlet. In January 2005, Spike TV launched The Ultimate Fighter 1 ( TUF 1 ) in
7416-684: A renovated building located at 100 Arlington Street in Downtown Boston , formerly the headquarters of the Boston Gas Company (which had leased the building to the university). Virtually the entire entering class were residents of Massachusetts, with the great majority living in the Greater Boston area. By the fall of 1968, the number of applications to UMass Boston for the fall semester had risen from 2,500 for fall 1965 to 5,700, and total enrollment had risen to 3,600. In
7622-519: A responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform". On January 26, Spotify removed Young's music; a spokesperson said Spotify wanted "all the world's music and audio content to be available to Spotify users" and that it had a "great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators". On January 29, the songwriter Joni Mitchell removed her catalog from Spotify in support of Young and "the global scientific and medical communities on this issue". Responding to
7828-486: A separate style of fighting known as present-day mixed martial arts. The UFC was initially owned by the Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG) until it had financial issues and it was sold to the brothers Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta in 2001, who formed the company Zuffa to operate the UFC, and placed Dana White as the president of the company. In 2016, UFC's parent company, Zuffa, was sold to
8034-472: A series of fight events debuting in August 2005, and Countdown specials to promote upcoming UFC pay-per-view cards. After a very successful run on Spike and with the upcoming announcement of the UFC's new relationship with Fox , Spike officials made a statement regarding the end of their partnership with the UFC, " The Ultimate Fighter season 14 in September will be our last... Our 6-year partnership with
8240-824: A signal that the university intended to settle permanently in Park Square. A proposal popular among students and faculty to build a high-rise academic building overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Copley Square was cancelled when the John Hancock Insurance Company purchased the land and built John Hancock Tower there instead. Another proposal for a campus in the Highland Park area of Roxbury also met with opposition from residents. Other proposals to locate
8446-405: A significantly larger dosage. Rogan criticized CNN for describing ivermectin as a "horse dewormer". On Rogan's podcast, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta said that ivermectin is used to treat diseases caused by parasites but that CNN should not have implied that Rogan was taking a veterinary drug since Rogan acquired it through a doctor. On September 3, 2021, Rogan tested negative for
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8652-527: A video offering to debate Rogan on his podcast "like free men". Rogan supports the legalized use of cannabis and believes it holds numerous benefits. He hosted the documentary film The Union: The Business Behind Getting High and was featured in Marijuana: A Chronic History and The Culture High . He also supports the use of LSD , psilocybin mushrooms , and DMT toward the exploration and enhancement of consciousness , as well as introspection . He
8858-425: A way to visually differentiate their event from professional boxing and professional wrestling . Some ideas included a traditional roped-ring surrounded by netting, a moat with alligators, a raised platform surrounded by razor-wire fence, electrified fencing, men in togas and netting that could be lowered from the ceiling by a pulley. Eventually Cusson designed an arena with eight sides surrounded by chain-link fence,
9064-491: A week of recording instead of a several-month delay, and elimination fights are aired live. With increased visibility, the UFC's pay-per-view buy numbers exploded. UFC 52 , the first event after the first season of The Ultimate Fighter featuring eventual-UFC Hall of Famer: Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell , avenging his defeat to fellow eventual-Hall of Famer, Randy Couture , drew a pay-per-view audience of 300,000, doubling its previous benchmark of 150,000 set at UFC 40. Following
9270-527: A world-class chancellor through a global search", specifically to address the university's 2017 operating budget deficit of $ 30 million. UMass Boston faculty publicly expressed concern that Motley was being scapegoated for the university's budget deficit while Boston City Councilors Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley , Massachusetts State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry , and Massachusetts State Representative Russell Holmes called upon System President Meehan to reject Motley's resignation. On April 8, 2017, at
9476-682: A wrestler beat a boxer?" As with most martial arts at the time, fighters typically had skills in just one discipline and little experience against opponents with differing skills. The television broadcast featured kickboxer Kevin Rosier , taekwondo practitioner Patrick Smith , savate fighter Gerard Gordeau , karate expert Zane Frazier , shootfighter Ken Shamrock , sumo wrestler Teila Tuli , boxer Art Jimmerson , and 175 lb (79 kg) Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Royce Gracie —younger brother of UFC co-founder Rorion, whom Rorion selected to represent his family. Royce's submission skills proved
9682-488: A year later. When he was 19, he won the US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight. He was a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for four consecutive years and became a taekwondo instructor. He also practiced amateur kickboxing and held a 2–1 record; he retired from competition at age 21, as he began to suffer from frequent headaches and feared he might sustain worse injuries. He attended
9888-459: A young, egocentric star player on a professional baseball team. Rogan called the hiring process "weird", as the network had no idea if he could act until he was asked by Dean Valentine, then-president of Walt Disney Television , to whom he replied: "If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure." The filming schedule was a new experience for Rogan, who started to work 12-hour days. Rogan later said: "It
10094-701: Is a member of the Urban 13 universities, alongside schools like Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh . The university maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations , a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China . In the 2017–2018 academic year, the five most popular majors at the university were Management , Biology , Psychology , Exercise and Health Sciences, and Nursing . Within
10300-690: Is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas , Nevada. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings , a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings . It is the largest MMA promotion in the world as of 2023. It produces events worldwide that showcase 11 weight divisions (eight men's and three women's) and abides by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts . As of 2024 , it had held over 700 events . Dana White has been its president since 2001 and CEO since 2023. Under White's stewardship, it has grown into
10506-608: Is it, this is going to be the last time. This is going to be the last year. But, when I was standing in the Octagon at UFC 40, I remember standing there before the Ortiz/Shamrock fight and looking around. The energy of that fight, it was phenomenal, and it was the first time I honestly said, it's going to make it." –"Big" John McCarthy Despite the success of UFC 40, the UFC was still experiencing financial deficits. By 2004, Zuffa had $ 34 million in losses since they purchased
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#173278721937010712-663: Is located off Interstate 93 and within one mile of the JFK/UMass MBTA Station on the Red Line and the Old Colony Lines of the Commuter Rail . A shuttle is available from the MBTA station to campus. Where UMass Boston would locate its campus permanently was a contentious dispute during the university's early history in the 1960s. The conflict emerged in 1965, not long after the university
10918-583: The Boston College Program for Women and Government moved to UMass Boston. Despite Chancellor Penney's efforts, many programs were consolidated or closed, such as the College of Education's undergraduate education degree. In 1994, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education classified UMass Boston as a Master's Comprehensive University I. By 1998, the university had four main research areas that accounted for three-quarters of
11124-590: The Boston Edison Company had not finished its electrical work, and because the site was a former landfill (that had only been closed since 1963), a concrete and brick substructure (where all of the campus mechanical systems would run conduits) undergirded by hundreds of driven piles needed to be constructed before the buildings, but pile driving released methane from the former landfill, requiring construction workers to halt production while each release of methane dispersed. The Columbia Point campus
11330-925: The COVID-19 pandemic . In early 2022, the video platform Rumble offered Rogan $ 100 million to switch from Spotify. Variety reported that Rogan had declined the offer. Rogan is a co-founder of the supplements and fitness company Onnit, which was sold to Unilever in 2021. Rogan frequently advertises for Onnit products on his podcast. Rogan is also the owner of the Comedy Mothership comedy club in Austin, Texas, which opened in March 2023. In 2020, CNN described Rogan as " libertarian -leaning". In 2019–20, Rogan described himself as socially liberal , saying he supports same-sex marriage , gay rights , women's rights , recreational drug use , universal health care , universal basic income , gun rights , and
11536-539: The MGM Grand Garden Arena , the UFC secured its first television deal with Fox Sports Net . The Best Damn Sports Show Period aired the first mixed martial arts match on American cable television in June 2002, as well as the main event showcasing Chuck Liddell vs. Vitor Belfort at UFC 37.5 . Later, FSN would air highlight shows from the UFC. UFC 40 proved to be the most critical event to date in
11742-462: The NBC sitcom NewsRadio as Joe Garrelli, an electrician and handyman at the show's fictional news radio station. The role was originally set to be played by actor Ray Romano , but Romano was let go from the cast after one rehearsal and Rogan was brought in. The switch caused Rogan to work with the show's writers to help develop the character before the show was set to launch, which he later described as
11948-529: The Second Amendment . He describes himself as a strong supporter of freedom of speech , and has criticized cancel culture and what he perceives to be suppression of those who hold right-wing views in the television and film industry. He has also criticized what he describes as an American foreign policy of military adventurism . In 2020, Rogan endorsed left-wing Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders , saying "I believe in him, I like him, I like him
12154-515: The Students for a Democratic Society both had chapters on campus, and in April 1969, the latter group rallied more than a hundred students protesting the decision to move the university campus to Columbia Point . The following month, a student group called the "Afro-American Society", staged an occupation of summer school registration, demanding the immediate hiring of more Black faculty members and
12360-428: The University of Massachusetts Boston but found the endeavor "pointless" and dropped out early. I didn't have a direction until I became a stand-up comedian. I was pretty nervous about my future. I couldn't imagine myself working a 9-to-5 job. —Rogan on his career Rogan had no intention of being a professional comedian, but was a fan of comedy from a young age, later saying of Richard Pryor 's special Live on
12566-554: The University of Massachusetts in Amherst with only 2,600 slots, yet the majority of the applicants lived in the Greater Boston area. In 1964, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue and State Senator George V. Kenneally Jr. introduced a bill to establish a Boston campus for the UMass System. The bill was opposed by several private colleges and universities in the area, including Northeastern University , Boston University , and Boston College (who argued that
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#173278721937012772-667: The Ward Commission 's investigation as follows: Besides the Worcester jail with the cells that did not lock, there was the auditorium at Boston State College in which the stage was not visible from a third of the seats and the library at Salem State College in which the walls were not sturdy enough to bear the weight of the books. At the UMass-Boston campus, ground zero of the scandal, school officials were forced to erect barricades to keep passerby from being brained by
12978-461: The salt water in the atmosphere and the road salt carried from automobiles would eventually damage parts of the substructure beyond feasible and cost-effective repair. Because the university was underneath flight paths arriving at Logan International Airport , all of the original Columbia Point campus buildings were soundproofed , and because of this, the classroom and offices in the buildings were designed as interior spaces with no windows, and
13184-524: The "Coalition to Save UMB") and issued a report authored by faculty calling on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts General Court to increase state funding to assist the university to service its debt from its campus renewal construction projects and increase capital investments for the university. In November 2017, an audit commissioned by UMass System President Marty Meehan found that faulty record keeping ,
13390-486: The 1950s, Massachusetts ranked at or near the bottom in public funding per capita for higher education, and proposals to expand the University of Massachusetts into Boston was opposed both by faculty and administrators at the Amherst campus and by the private colleges and universities in Boston. In 1962, the 162nd Massachusetts General Court expanded the UMass System for the first time to Worcester, Massachusetts with
13596-548: The 1990s, the university gained campus chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta and the Golden Key International Honour Society . Enrollment steadily increased during Chancellor Penney's tenure to 12,482 total students and 2,866 graduate students by 2000, and the university went from one in twelve students who were minority or female in 1988 to one in three by 2000. The percentage of Black faculty rose from 13 percent in 1988 to 20 percent in 2000, and
13802-612: The American edition of Fear Factor . He declined initially as he thought the network would not air such a program due to its content, but Sussman convinced him to accept. Rogan later said that the main reason he accepted was to obtain observations and anecdotes for his stand-up comedy. The show increased Rogan's national exposure which caused turnouts at his stand-up gigs to grow. Fear Factor ran for an initial six seasons from 2001 to 2006. Rogan's role as host of Fear Factor led to further television opportunities. In 2002, he appeared on
14008-465: The Amherst campus to relocate and form the UMass Boston faculty, and appointed Amherst's history professor Paul A. Gagnon and Amherst's provost and biology professor Arthur Gentile to hire the humanities and natural science faculty members respectively. Serving as the new university's first provost, Gagnon became the most important faculty member in defining the curriculum and academic focus of
14214-509: The Boston State faculty had PhDs than the UMass Boston faculty did, the board of regents also decided to terminate the employment of hundreds of faculty and staff at Boston State College. The merger boosted enrollment at UMass Boston by 38 percent in one year (from more than 8,000 in 60 areas of study in 1981 to more than 11,000 in 100 areas of study by 1983), and as Boston State College had more graduate programs than UMass Boston did at
14420-510: The Boston campus faculty reiterating their concerns about the Mount Ida campus and requesting more input into its planning. In February 2020, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was unanimously appointed as the new permanent chancellor of the university. In September 2021, the UMass System Board of Trustees Chair announced that a $ 15 million endowment would be established for the UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences as part of
14626-674: The Boston campus. As of April 2018, the UMass Boston campus remained the sole campus in the UMass system with a majority-minority enrollment. In May 2018, following the approval of the sale by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey , the UMass Boston Faculty Council passed a motion of no confidence in UMass System President Marty Meehan and the UMass System Board of Trustees. Ten days after three finalists for
14832-489: The COVID-19 pandemic" and more specifically "a highly controversial episode" featuring guest Robert W. Malone (#1757)", a biochemist who has promoted vaccine misinformation. The episode was criticized for promoting conspiracy theories, including "an unfounded theory that societal leaders have 'hypnotized' the public". The signatories wrote that "Dr. Malone is one of two recent JRE guests who has compared pandemic policies to
15038-551: The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The University of Massachusetts System dates back to the founding of Massachusetts Agricultural College under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in 1863. Prior to the founding of UMass Boston, the Amherst campus was the only public, comprehensive university in the state. As late as
15244-521: The College of Liberal Arts, the five most popular majors were Psychology, Criminal Justice , Economics , Communication Studies , and English . Within the College of Science and Mathematics, the five most popular majors were Biology, Computer Science , Biochemistry , Mathematics , and Electrical Engineering . Within the College of Management, the five most popular concentrations were Accounting , Finance , Marketing , Information Technology , and International Management. The five most popular minors at
15450-529: The College of Liberal Arts. In 1990, the university launched PhD programs in clinical psychology , gerontology , and environmental biology. In 1993, the College of Public and Community Service established the Labor Resource Center and the College of Liberal Arts established the Institute for Asian American Studies, the College of Education began its partnership with The Mather School , and
15656-522: The Columbia Point proposal. Beginning in 1970, the construction of the Columbia Point campus was the largest public capital construction project in the history of Massachusetts (exceeded only later by the Big Dig ). The state government hired a single construction management firm, McKee-Berger-Mansueto (MBM), to supervise six other architectural firms and construction companies to complete the project by September 1973. The construction had multiple delays:
15862-567: The Environment also have a field station on Nantucket . In 2009, the Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure to a Florida-based real estate firm, LNR/CMAT, and on May 19, 2010, the university purchased the property to use as campus facilities and to recoup 1,300 parking spaces after the closure of the campus substructure parking garage in 2006. In January 2018, the UMass Building Authority put
16068-484: The Founding Day Convocation for the university was held December 10, 1966. In 1968, a group of students started the folk music radio station WUMB-FM . In the summer of 1968, inaugural Chancellor John W. Ryan resigned and was succeeded by historian Francis L. Broderick. Chancellor Broderick oversaw the reorganization of the university into separate colleges (College I and College II), along with
16274-726: The GoKids Boston program to counter childhood obesity , and in 2008, the Graduate College of Education renamed itself the College of Education and Human Development. In 2010, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston's designation a second time, now to a Doctoral/Research University with High Activity. In 2013, the university established its School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (the first of its kind in
16480-522: The Holocaust . These actions are not only objectionable and offensive, but also medically and culturally dangerous." The signatories also note that Malone was suspended from Twitter "for spreading misinformation about COVID-19". On January 24, 2022, the songwriter Neil Young posted an open letter demanding that Spotify remove his music from their service if they would not remove The Joe Rogan Experience from their service. Young wrote that "Spotify has
16686-791: The International Fighting Championships (IFC) secured the first U.S. sanctioned mixed martial arts event, which occurred in New Jersey on September 30, 2000. Just two months later, the UFC held its first sanctioned event, UFC 28 , under the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board 's "Unified Rules". After the long battle to secure sanctioning, SEG stood on the brink of bankruptcy, when Station Casinos executives Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta and their business partner Dana White approached them in 2000, with an offer to purchase
16892-559: The Study of Black Culture in 1984. In 1988, historian Sherry A. Penney succeeded Robert A. Corrigan as chancellor. Her tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts, to which Governor Michael Dukakis responded by ordering all state agencies to cut their budgets in the 1989, 1990, and 1991 fiscal years . In response to the budget cuts, Chancellor Penney began initiating major fundraising efforts, and despite
17098-694: The Sunset Strip , "It affected me in such a profound way. Nothing had made me laugh like that." His friends from gym and Taekwondo school, whom he would make laugh with impressions and jokes, convinced him to try stand-up. At 21, after six months preparing material and practicing his delivery, he performed his first stand-up routine on August 27, 1988, at an open-mic night at a Stitches comedy club in Boston. While living in Boston and working on his stand-up, Rogan held several jobs to secure himself financially, including teaching martial arts at Boston University and in nearby Revere , delivering newspapers, driving
17304-416: The UFC brand. On October 4, 2007, Pride Worldwide closed its Japanese office, laying off 20 people who were working there since the closing of its parent company Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE). On June 18, 2008, Lorenzo Fertitta accommodated the UFC's growth by announcing his resignation from Station Casinos in order to devote his energies to the international business development of Zuffa, particularly
17510-507: The UFC continued to work with state athletic commissions. Blatnick, McCarthy, and matchmaker Joe Silva created a manual of policies, procedures, codes of conduct, and rules to help in getting the UFC sanctioned by the athletic commissions, many of which exist to this day. Blatnick and McCarthy traveled around the country, educating regulators and changing perceptions about a sport that was thought to be bloodthirsty and inhumane. By April 2000, their movement had clearly made an impact. California
17716-453: The UFC had its first event outside continental United States with UFC 8 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico , and in 1997, UFC Japan: Ultimate Japan was its first foreign event. The violent nature of the burgeoning sport quickly drew the attention of U.S. authorities. In 1996, U.S. Senator John McCain saw a tape of the first UFC events and immediately found it abhorrent. He led a campaign to ban
17922-530: The UFC has been incredibly beneficial in building both our brands, and we wish them all the best in the future." With the announcement of UFC's partnership with Fox in August 2011, The Ultimate Fighter , which entered its 14th season in that September, moved to the FX network to air on Friday nights starting with season 15 in the Spring of 2012. Along with the network change, episodes are now edited and broadcast within
18128-583: The UFC's media profile in an attempt to legalize mixed martial arts in jurisdictions inside and outside the United States that had yet to sanction the sport. In December 2006, Zuffa acquired the northern California-based promotion World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) in order to stop the International Fight League (IFL) from making a deal with Versus (now NBC Sports Network ). At the time, the UFC had an exclusive deal with Spike, so
18334-454: The UFC, calling it "human cockfighting", and sent letters to the governors of all 50 US states asking them to ban it. 36 states enacted laws that banned "no-holds-barred" fighting, including New York, which enacted the ban on the eve of UFC 12 , forcing it to relocate to Dothan, Alabama . The UFC continued to air on DirecTV PPV, though its audience remained minuscule compared to the era's larger cable pay-per-view platforms. In response to
18540-458: The UFC. Faced with the prospect of folding, the UFC stepped outside the bounds of pay-per-view and made a foray into television. After being featured in a reality television series, American Casino , and seeing how well the series worked as a promotion vehicle, the Fertitta brothers developed the idea of UFC creating its own reality series. Their idea, The Ultimate Fighter ( TUF ), was
18746-522: The UFC. A month later, in January 2001, the Fertittas bought the UFC for $ 2 million and created Zuffa, LLC as the parent entity controlling the UFC. "I had my attorneys tell me that I was crazy because I wasn't buying anything. I was paying $ 2 million and they were saying 'What are you getting? ' " Lorenzo Fertitta revealed to Fighters Only magazine, recalling the lack of assets he acquired in
18952-553: The UFC. The move proved to be pivotal, as Fertitta helped strike TV deals in China, France, Mexico, and Germany as well as open alternative revenue streams with a new UFC video game and UFC action figures, among other projects. University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston ) is a public US-based research university . It is the only public research university in Boston and
19158-410: The UMass Boston chancellor position were named, on May 21, 2018, all three finalists withdrew from consideration after faculty members questioned the qualifications of the candidates. On June 20, 2018, UMass System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Katherine Newman was appointed as the university's interim chancellor. In September 2018, students moved into UMass Boston's first dormitory, and
19364-494: The UMass System. In June 1964, with a $ 200,000 appropriation , the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston was signed into law. UMass President John W. Lederle began recruiting freshmen students, faculty, and administrative staff for the fall semester of 1965 (with goals of 1,000 students and 80 faculty members), and appointed his assistant at the Amherst campus, John W. Ryan , as UMass Boston's first chancellor. Ryan recruited tenured faculty members from
19570-404: The United States Senate was held. On January 25, 2016, the university began a phased opening of its second new academic facility, University Hall. In September 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the first time in the university's history, tied at number 220. On March 3, 2017, Barry Mills
19776-599: The United States for veteran students. In May 2019, the Pioneer Institute released a white paper co-authored by former Massachusetts State Representative Gregory W. Sullivan that concluded that Chancellor Keith Motley and other UMass Boston administrators were scapegoated for the 2017 fiscal year $ 30 million budget deficit and that instead the approval by the System Board of Trustees of an accelerated 5-year capital spending plan in December 2014 and an error to
19982-461: The United States, UMass Boston administration suspended regular business operations while the campus became consumed by protests. In 1972, Chancellor Francis L. Broderick resigned, and was succeeded by Carlo L. Golino in 1973. During Golino's tenure before the move to Columbia Point , the university began awarding its first master's degrees in English and mathematics . On January 28, 1974,
20188-464: The United States, the UFC has achieved greater mainstream media coverage. It earned US$ 609 million in 2015, and its next domestic media rights agreement with ESPN was valued at $ 1.5 billion over a five-year term. In April 2023, Endeavor Group Holdings announced that UFC would merge with the wrestling promotion WWE to form TKO Group Holdings , a new public company majority-owned by Endeavor, with Vince McMahon serving as an executive chairman of
20394-486: The United States. In addition to Mayor Collins, the Boston business community, the Massachusetts General Court , WBZ radio, the editorial board of The Boston Globe , and residents of the South End were also opposed to a permanent downtown campus. Nonetheless, when the university purchased the building at 100 Arlington Street in 1966, many faculty and students interpreted the transaction as
20600-598: The Zuffa era. The event was a near sellout of 13,022 at the MGM Grand Arena and sold 150,000 pay-per-view buys, a rate roughly double that of the previous Zuffa events. The event featured a card headlined by a championship match between then-current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz and former UFC Superfight Champion Ken Shamrock, who had previously left to professionally wrestle in WWE before returning to MMA. It
20806-480: The Zuffa purchase, due partly to greater advertising, corporate sponsorship, the return to cable pay-per-view, and subsequent home video and DVD releases. White later said that "Nobody took us seriously, except Donald Trump . Donald was the first to recognize the potential that we saw in the UFC, and encouraged us to build our business". With larger live gates at casino venues like the Trump Taj Mahal and
21012-585: The admission of more Black students. In March 1970, a group of thirty students occupied the chancellor's office after a popular "radical" female professor in the Sociology Department was denied tenure. Following President Richard Nixon 's announcement of the Vietnam War 's Cambodian campaign on April 30, 1970, and the subsequent shooting of anti-war protestors at Kent State University on May 4 , like hundreds of other universities across
21218-466: The aforementioned Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, and Patrick Smith , they also featured competitors such as Hall of Famer Dan Severn , Marco Ruas , Gary Goodridge , Don Frye , Kimo Leopoldo , Oleg Taktarov , and Tank Abbott . In April 1995, following UFC 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina , Davie and Gracie sold their interest in the franchise to SEG and disbanded WOW Promotions. Although UFC used
21424-499: The authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state, and in 1981, the board decided to merge UMass Boston and Boston State College by 1984. Such a merger (including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as well) had been proposed in the state legislature in 1963 when UMass Boston was initially founded. Though the 1981 merger had allowed both schools a three-year grace period to ease
21630-504: The banning of strikes to the back of the neck and head, headbutting, small-joint manipulations, and groin strikes. With five-minute rounds introduced at UFC 21 , the UFC gradually rebranded itself as a sport rather than a spectacle. The implementation of rules changed the game of many fighters, for example Mark Coleman made potent use of headbutts for his ground-and-pound tactics, could not use them effectively anymore. Led by UFC commissioner Jeff Blatnick and referee John McCarthy ,
21836-604: The basis of the College of Education, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Criminal Justice program in the Sociology Department respectively. Despite the Boston State College students having a similar demographic profile to UMass Boston students, many students expressed opposition to the merger. Many of Boston State College's undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at UMass Boston were disbanded, and as fewer of
22042-441: The best martial art, and would aim to replicate the excitement of the matches Davie saw on the videos. Gracie accepted, as he was interested in showcasing and promoting his family's own jiu-jitsu for a wide audience. Milius, a film director/screenwriter and Gracie student, agreed to be the event's creative director . Davie drafted the business plan , and 28 investors contributed the initial capital to start WOW Promotions to develop
22248-512: The bricks that kept falling off the side of the library. Unsurprisingly, a completely corrupt system had produced completely shoddy buildings that the taxpayers, already fleeced once, would have to pay to repair. On July 19, 2006, Chancellor Michael F. Collins ordered the immediate and permanent closure of the substructure parking garage, causing a loss of 1,500 parking spaces. Two days later, an article in The Boston Globe summarized
22454-405: The campus mechanical systems had run conduits through the substructure, many of those systems could not be repaired and the damage was causing outages of the computer, electrical, heat, and air-conditioning equipment. An engineering report indicated that to repair the garage such that it would be safe for parking would cost $ 150 million. On October 2, 2006, the university began the process of creating
22660-674: The champions and top contenders from both organizations, making comparisons to the AFL–NFL merger and the creation of a " Super Bowl " of MMA. However, after purchasing Pride, Dana White felt that the Pride model was not sustainable and that the brand became "toxic" in Japan, being difficult to find a new television deal. The organization instead folded, with many former Pride fighters such as Antônio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira , Maurício "Shogun" Rua , Dan Henderson , Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović , Wanderlei Silva , and others already being realigned under
22866-402: The city skyline since 1929, one in five of the city's housing units were classified as dilapidated or deteriorating and the city was ranked lowest among major cities in building starts , while the only growing industries in the city were government and universities (leading to a narrowing tax base) and the city already had a higher number of municipal employees per capita than any major city in
23072-631: The coaches of The Ultimate Fighter 3 . The organization hit a milestone with UFC 66 , pitting Ortiz in a rematch against Liddell with over 1 million buys. The surge in popularity prompted the UFC to beef up its executive team. In March 2006, the UFC announced that it had hired Marc Ratner , former executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission , as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. Ratner, once an ally of Senator McCain's campaign against no holds barred fighting, lobbied numerous athletic commissions to help raise
23278-648: The comedy film Zookeeper . He was also working on a book around this time that he tentatively titled Irresponsible Advice from a Man with No Credibility , based on his blog entries on his website. Rogan played himself in Here Comes the Boom , another action-comedy film starring Kevin James that was released in 2012. In December 2012, Rogan released his sixth comedy special Live from the Tabernacle exclusively as
23484-537: The construction of the EMK Institute underway on April 8, 2011, the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex underway on June 8, 2011, renovations to the Clark Athletic Center's gymnasium from March to December 2012, construction for a second academic building (University Hall) underway on February 27, 2013, and a utility corridor and roadway network project begun in the spring of 2013,
23690-458: The construction. Chunks of concrete had been falling from the garage ceiling since the 1990s, and when Chancellor Collins ordered the closure, 600 spaces had already been lost due to ongoing repairs and rerouting of passenger and vehicular traffic. Because of the salt water atmosphere and the road salt from vehicles, the steel reinforcing bars embedded in the campus substructure concrete walls and ceiling became severely degraded, and because all of
23896-638: The contract for the second season was made outside of the venue on a napkin immediately after the finale. On the heels of the Griffin/Bonnar finale, a second season of The Ultimate Fighter launched in August 2005, and two more seasons appeared in 2006. Spike and the UFC continued to create and air new seasons until the show moved to FX in 2012. Following the success of The Ultimate Fighter , Spike also picked up UFC Unleashed , an hour-long weekly show featuring select fights from previous events. Spike also signed on to broadcast live UFC Fight Night,
24102-401: The contract. A scandal erupted after it was learned MBM paid Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Joseph DiCarlo and State Senator Ronald MacKenzie $ 40,000 in exchange for a favorable report from the committee. DiCarlo and MacKenzie were convicted of extortion. Newspaper columnist Charles Pierce summarized the careless and negligent quality of MBM's construction projects unearthed by
24308-531: The controversy, Rogan denied intentionally spreading misinformation and pledged "to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people's perspectives", and said that he agreed with Spotify adding a disclaimer to the beginning of his videos. Rogan is an avid hunter and is part of the "Eat What You Kill" movement, which attempts to move away from factory farming and the mistreatment of animals raised for food. Ultimate Fighting Championship The Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC )
24514-427: The course of a few days owing in part to some of the episodes having been perceived to have racist and insensitive language. In February 2022, singer India Arie shared a compilation of Rogan saying the racial slur " nigger " on The Joe Rogan Experience on Instagram . Rogan apologized, calling his past language "regretful and shameful" while also saying that the clips were taken out of context and that he only quoted
24720-501: The creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School . In 1963, UMass President John W. Lederle informed the General Court that more than 1,200 graduates of Boston area high schools qualified to attend the University of Massachusetts were denied admission to the Amherst campus due to lack of space, and endorsed expanding the system with a commuter campus in Boston. At the time, there were 12,000 freshman applications to
24926-436: The criticism, the UFC increased cooperation with state athletic commissions and modified its rules to remove the less palatable elements of fights while retaining the core elements of striking and grappling . UFC 12 saw the introduction of weight classes and the banning of fish-hooking . For UFC 14 , gloves became mandatory, while kicks to the head of a downed opponent were banned. UFC 15 saw limitations on hair pulling, and
25132-501: The decline in state support, implemented multiple research programs, PhD programs, and oversaw a reorganization of the school's colleges. In 1989, Chancellor Penney oversaw the opening of both the Urban Harbors Institute and The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, and later oversaw the separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into the College of Science and Mathematics and
25338-429: The deterioration of the facility: The University of Massachusetts at Boston has closed an underground parking garage that has been decaying for decades. ... Over the years, the garage has become a dreary labyrinth, with walls and floor so eroded from the salty environment that they look like a coral reef. Nets hang from the ceiling to catch fragments of falling cement, a problem linked to the use of low-quality concrete in
25544-564: The entrance to every building faced inward onto the campus plaza. Due to the campus being uniformly built of brick and the campus positioned above the landscape, the campus became known as "The Fortress", "The Rock", or "The Prison" colloquially. The buildings were rumored to have been designed by architects familiar with the architectural design of prisons (such as Weese, who designed the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center ), but also designed so that
25750-477: The episode "A Beautiful Mind" of Just Shoot Me as Chris, the boyfriend of lead character Maya Gallo. In December 2002, Rogan was the emcee for the 2002 Blockbuster Hollywood Spectacular, a Christmas parade in Hollywood. In February 2003, Rogan became the new co-host of The Man Show on Comedy Central for its fifth season from August 2003, with fellow comedian Doug Stanhope , following the departure of original hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla . A year into
25956-422: The establishment of the College of Public and Community Service, and presided over the university's first graduation ceremony on June 12, 1969 (where 500 of the original 1,240 students received diplomas). By early 1967, some younger professors were holding teach-ins and encouraging their male students to burn their draft cards in protest of "American corporate imperialism." The Young Socialist Alliance and
26162-481: The event as a real-life fighting video game tournament similar to Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat . SEG contacted video and film art director Jason Cusson to design a fighting arena for the event. Rorion and Davie didn't want a traditional roped ring , citing fears—by showing old Vale Tudo footage—that the fighters could escape through the ropes during grappling and use it as an advantage, or fall off and hurt themselves. SEG's executives agreed, and also wanted
26368-406: The fall of 2000 to 614 in the fall of 2014. In 2014, UMass Boston celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and in 2015, the University of Massachusetts Press published the school's first history about its founding and growth, entitled UMass Boston at 50 . In 2015, the College of Management enrolled close to one-sixth of all students and more than half of the undergraduate students earning degrees in
26574-474: The first in the world, was launched under the direction of chemist and UMass Boston alumnus John Warner in 2004. Gora resigned as chancellor in 2004 and was succeeded in the interim by J. Keith Motley . During Motley's interim tenure, the university established a partnership with the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in 2005. On April 2, 2004, a new Campus Center next to Wheatley Hall
26780-468: The former school would acquire the latter's campus in Newton after the latter college's closure. The acquisition was immediately opposed by UMass Boston faculty and students due to inadequate consultation with the Boston campus faculty, the Boston campus' budget deficit, and that because of the proximity of the Mount Ida campus to the Boston campus, the faculty contended that the new campus would compete with
26986-724: The fourth floor of the Bayside Office Center at 150 Mount Vernon Street, which is adjacent to the former Bayside Expo Center and down the street from the main campus. UMass Boston's Early Learning Center that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children is located at 2 Harbor Point Boulevard in the Harbor Point Apartments complex adjacent to the campus. UMass Boston's Biology Department and School for
27192-1094: The game show Fear Factor from 2001 to 2006. After leaving Fear Factor , Rogan focused on his stand-up career and hosted more comedy specials. He launched The Joe Rogan Experience in 2009; by 2015, it was one of the most popular podcasts in the world, regularly receiving millions of plays per episode. Spotify obtained exclusive distribution rights to The Joe Rogan Experience in 2020 for US$ 200 million. Rogan's audience has since grown significantly, and in 2024, he renewed his deal with Spotify for an estimated $ 250 million, but will no longer be exclusive to them. Rogan has voiced support for same-sex marriage , recreational drug legalization, universal health care , universal basic income , gun rights , and free speech , while opposing cancel culture and military adventurism . He supported Donald Trump in 2024, having previously endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020. Rogan has been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories , COVID-19 misinformation , and for hosting guests who spread misinformation and pseudoscience . Joseph James Rogan
27398-863: The genocide allegations, Rogan said he appreciated Hughes perspective, saying: "You clearly know more about it than I do." Rogan described the way that President Vladimir Putin leads Russia as "evil" but "impressive". He called Putin a "strong leader" and said "Isn't there always a longing for a strong man ". In November 2024, Rogan said the Russian invasion of Ukraine was "100% wrong". He criticized outgoing US President Joe Biden for allowing Ukraine to strike back at mainland Russia with US-supplied missiles . He also criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy , saying "Fuck you, man. You fucking people are about to start world war three ". Ukrainian world heavyweight boxing champion, Wladimir Klitschko , accused Rogan of "repeating Russian propaganda ". Klitschko posted
27604-550: The guy." At the age of seven, he moved with his mother to San Francisco, California , and when he was 11 they moved to Gainesville, Florida . They later settled in Newton Upper Falls , Massachusetts . He graduated from Newton South High School in 1985. Rogan participated in Little League Baseball and developed an interest in martial arts in his early teens. He recalled being "terrified of being
27810-411: The inaugural UFC featuring three-time champion Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock, called "The Superfight". "The Superfight" began as a non-tournament match that would determine the first reigning UFC Champion for tournament winners to face; it later evolved into a match that could feature either title matches or non-title matches. The "Superfight" would eventually completely phase out tournament matches. On
28016-500: The intention of changing the character of the university from a commuter school to a residential school. Eight months later on August 7, 2008, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a higher education bond bill with $ 100 million directed towards the construction of a new integrated sciences complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the university's campus, a second $ 100 million directed towards constructing
28222-525: The interim by Claire Van Ummersen , and succeeded permanently in 1979 by Robert A. Corrigan . In October 1979, a dedication ceremony was held for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on a 10-acre site adjacent to the university campus. In 1980, the 171st Massachusetts General Court voted to establish the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with
28428-458: The late 1960s, UMass Boston students on average were 23 years old, typically white and male, working part- or full-time, and either married or living with others in an apartment. UMass Boston also reportedly had the largest population of Vietnam War veterans of any US university and the largest population of African American students of all universities in Massachusetts. In February 1966, the 164th Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for
28634-552: The money he had earned from television, Rogan hired two people full-time to film him and his comedy friends on tour, and release clips on his website for his JoeShow web series. In May 2005, Rogan signed a deal with the Endeavor Talent Agency . Two months later, he filmed his second stand-up comedy special, Joe Rogan: Live , in Phoenix, Arizona . The special premiered on Showtime in 2007. In 2005, Rogan wrote
28840-519: The most effective in the inaugural tournament, earning him the first ever UFC tournament championship after submitting Jimmerson, Shamrock, and Gordeau in succession. The show was extremely successful, with 86,592 pay-per-view television subscribers. It's disputed whether the promoters intended the event to be a precursor to future events. "That show was only supposed to be a one-off", eventual UFC president Dana White said. "It did so well on pay-per-view they decided to do another, and another. Never in
29046-501: The network offering him a three-year exclusive contract and a role in a pilot episode of a "dopey game show" for $ 500. Rogan declined, but it prompted Sussman to send tapes of Rogan's performances to several networks, which sparked a bidding war. After a period of negotiation, Rogan accepted a development deal with the Disney network. He secured his first major acting role in the 1994 nine-episode Fox sitcom Hardball as Frank Valente,
29252-732: The new entity and White remaining as UFC president. The merger was completed on September 12, 2023. Art Davie proposed to John Milius and Rorion Gracie an eight-man single-elimination tournament called "War of the Worlds". It was inspired by the "Gracies in Action" video-series produced by the Gracie family of Brazil which featured Gracie jiu-jitsu students defeating martial artists of various disciplines such as karate , kung fu , and kickboxing on Vale Tudo matches. The tournament would also feature martial artists from different disciplines facing each other in no-holds-barred combat to determine
29458-423: The offices, food court, event space, student clubs, and activities space gave the campus a center of cohesion that was often lacking in the older buildings. In 2005, Chancellor Gora was permanently succeeded by Michael F. Collins. In early 2007, Chancellor Collins resigned, and he was succeeded by J. Keith Motley , the university's first Black chancellor. In 2007, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences began
29664-650: The opening of the Clark Athletic Center and the Boston State College merger, during his tenure, he oversaw the authorization of the university's first PhD program (in environmental science ), the opening of the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and the Urban Scholars program for talented Boston Public Schools (BPS) students in 1983, as well as the opening of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for
29870-465: The original Arlington Street building. However, while the UMass Board of Trustees and UMass President John W. Lederle argued instead for a unified campus on Columbia Point, they allowed a task force an additional month to more fully study Broderick's proposal. In the end, after reviewing the task force's white paper at a meeting in December 1968, the UMass Board of Trustees voted 12 to 4 to accept
30076-422: The other hand, the first "Superfight" at UFC 5 was also considered a failure. In the first minute of the fight Shamrock knocked Royce to the ground and landed inside his guard. For the next 30 minutes Shamrock was inside Royce's guard, with the two throwing punches and headbutts at each other but without any change or action, with the crowd booing the fighters. After 30 minutes the fight was stopped as it had exceeded
30282-507: The pay-per-view industry's all-time records for a single year of business, generating over $ 222,766,000 in revenue in 2006, surpassing both WWE and boxing. The UFC continued its rapid rise from near obscurity with Roger Huerta gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated and Chuck Liddell on the front of ESPN The Magazine in May 2007. In Japan, Mixed Martial Arts took a separate, yet convergent evolution, with origins in " shoot wrestling ",
30488-557: The percentage of women faculty rose from less than one-third in 1988 to 41 percent in 2000. In 2000, Chancellor Penney resigned. She was succeeded in the interim in 2000 by David MacKenzie, and permanently in May 2001 by Jo Ann M. Gora . During Gora's tenure, the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs became the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies in 2003, and the PhD program in green chemistry ,
30694-601: The permanent campus near Fenway Park , or South Station and Chinatown , or on golf courses for sale in Newton , were considered but rejected by Chancellor Ryan due to insufficient space or commuting concerns. In 1967, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) published a study, titled An Urban Campus by the Sea , which proposed building the campus on the Columbia Point peninsula. The site
30900-492: The platform from January 2021. The podcast is available with both audio and video within the Spotify app and video is no longer streamed or uploaded to YouTube. The podcasts are typically released one day after recording, to allow time for the producers to make clips of the podcast. Clips from the video version will continue to be available on YouTube. In February 2022, Spotify removed 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience over
31106-493: The plaza could easily be occupied by the National Guard to suppress demonstrations and protests. In 1974, the $ 350 million capital construction budget for erecting more buildings on the campus was frozen due to the 1973–1975 recession , halting any further expansion of the campus. Construction for the Clark Athletic Center (that included an ice hockey arena, swimming pool, and basketball courts) broke ground in 1978 and
31312-399: The podcast was named The Joe Rogan Experience and entered the list of Top 100 podcasts on iTunes and in 2011, was picked up by SiriusXM Satellite Radio . The podcast features an array of guests who discuss current events, politics, philosophy, comedy, hobbies, and numerous other topics. By January 2015, the podcast reached over 11 million monthly downloads. By October that year, the podcast
31518-401: The position at the organization as Sussman was friends with its co-creator and original producer, Campbell McLaren . He quit after two years as his salary could not cover the cost of traveling to the events, which were often held in rural locations. After the UFC was taken over by Zuffa in 2001, Rogan attended some events and became friends with its new president Dana White , who offered him
31724-423: The previous Zuffa shows averaged a mere 45,000 buys per event, and the company was suffering deep monetary losses. The success of UFC 40 provided a glimmer of hope for the UFC, and kept alive the hope that mixed martial arts could become big. Beyond the rivalry itself, the success of UFC 40 was due in part to the marketing and outreach power of crossover athletes – from Pro Wrestling to MMA and MMA to Pro Wrestling –
31930-437: The purchase of Mount Ida College in April 2018 was conducted by a wire transfer from the UMass System for $ 75 million without being included on the previously approved university capital plan at the time the UMass Central Office ordered the budget reductions rather than UMass Amherst purchasing the Mount Ida campus with loanable funds to be repaid with interest . The following month, interim Chancellor Katherine Newman issued
32136-597: The purchase of the WEC allowed Zuffa to block the IFL from Versus without violating their contract. The WEC showcased lighter weight classes in MMA, whereas the UFC featured heavier weight classes. In December 2006, Zuffa also acquired their cross-town, Las Vegas rival World Fighting Alliance (WFA). The WFA had signed major fighters at the time, most notably Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Lyoto Machida , but their events turned out to be
32342-418: The purchase. "And I said 'What you don't understand is I'm getting the most valuable thing that I could possibly have, which is those three letters: UFC. That is what's going to make this thing work. Everybody knows that brand, whether they like it or they don't like it, they react to it. ' " Along with the trademark, they acquired a wooden octagon and around a dozen fighter's contracts. Later on, they negotiated
32548-418: The radio, was subsequently released as a single. Around this time, Rogan also worked on ideas for a film and a cartoon with his comedian friend Chris McGuire, and began to operate a blog on his website, JoeRogan.net, which he used to discuss various topics that helped him develop his stand-up routines. In 2001, the development of Rogan's television show was interrupted after he accepted an offer from NBC to host
32754-744: The same character every week", and only did so for the money. He later viewed his time on NewsRadio as "a dream gig" that allowed him to earn money while working on his stand-up as often as he could. During the series, he worked on a pilot for a show entitled Overseas . Rogan began working for the mixed martial arts promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship as a backstage and post-fight interviewer. His first show took place at UFC 12: Judgement Day in Dothan, Alabama , on February 7, 1997. He became interested in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 1994 after watching Royce Gracie fight at UFC 2: No Way Out , and landed
32960-428: The second season of The Ultimate Fighter , the UFC's match between Liddell and Couture drew an estimated 410,000 pay-per-view buys at UFC 57 . For the rest of 2006, pay-per-view buy rates continued to skyrocket, with 620,000 buys for UFC 60: Hughes vs. Gracie —featuring Royce Gracie's first UFC fight in 11 years—and 775,000 buys for UFC 61 featuring the highly anticipated rematch between Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz,
33166-400: The show as the idea intrigued him, calling it "a completely mindless form of entertainment". In 2010, Rogan accused comedian Dane Cook of joke thievery. In 2011, Rogan resumed his role as Fear Factor host for its seventh and final season (until 2012). Rogan took the job, saying he "would hate to see somebody else do it." Later in 2011, Rogan played his first major film character, Gale, in
33372-444: The show without a pilot episode. The production team gave Rogan some creative control over the program and aimed to present it in his own words where possible. In December 2009, Rogan launched a free podcast with his friend and fellow comedian Brian Redban . The first episode was recorded on December 24 and was to be a live weekly broadcast on Ustream , with Rogan and Redban "sitting in front of laptops bullshitting". By August 2010,
33578-461: The show, however, the hosts entered disagreements with Comedy Central and the show's producers over content. Rogan recalled: "I was a little misled ... I was told: 'Show nudity, and we'll blur it out. Swear and we'll bleep it out.' That hasn't been the case". The show ended in 2004. Around this time Rogan entered talks to host his own radio show, but they came to nothing due to his already busy schedule. In 2005, actor Wesley Snipes challenged Rogan to
33784-406: The slur to discuss its use by others. The footage in question was first published by the political action committee PatriotTakes, an affiliate of the liberal PAC MeidasTouch . This resulted in allegations of a defamation attempt by MeidasTouch, which the founders denied in an interview with Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy , instead attributing the source of the footage to Alex Jones who
33990-457: The sport in Japan and in the world. Having high attendances on large sports arenas and watched by millions of spectators through free-to-air and pay-per-view television. Meanwhile, the UFC was struggling with political persecution, low pay-per-view sales, and doing events in backwater casinos. Most of UFC's best fighters would leave to fight in Japan instead due better pay and prestige. However, on 2006, Pride started to have financial issues due
34196-487: The state would be better off subsidizing the existing private institutions in the city), as well as by Boston State College (who argued for expanding its campus on Huntington Avenue instead). However, the Huntington Avenue building of Boston State College could not be expanded to accommodate a 15,000-student campus, and the local news media and public opinion generally favored creating the new Boston campus for
34402-414: The station to the campus would be too expensive, and the university administration set about planning a shuttle bus system, funded by parking fees. Campus facilities would rise from the bottom of the substructure and the bottom of the substructure would provide entry to a parking garage with 1,600 spaces. Because the campus was surrounded on three sides by a bay , exposed to sea breeze and winter storms ,
34608-553: The student leaders denounced the university as "a 'pawn' masking the Boston Redevelopment Authority's plan to remove poor people from Columbia Point" and that "the university is planning a prestigious dormitory school with high tuition which students from low- and moderate-income families–whom the university was designed to serve–will not be able to attend." Chancellor Ryan also opposed the Columbia Point proposal, who before he resigned in February 1968, made
34814-404: The tagline "There are no rules" in the early 1990s, the UFC did in fact operate with limited rules. In a UFC 4 qualifying match, competitors Jason Fairn and Guy Mezger agreed not to pull hair—as they both wore pony tails tied back for the match. The UFC had a reputation, especially in the early days, as an extremely violent event. UFC 5 also introduced the first singles match, a rematch from
35020-422: The termination of lucrative contracts with Japanese TV due a scandal revealing the strong ties between Pride and the yakuza . On March 27, 2007, the UFC and Pride announced an agreement in which the majority owners of the UFC, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, would purchase the Pride brand. Initial intentions were for the organizations to be run separately but aligned together with plans to co-promote cards featuring
35226-401: The third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States. While a majority of UMass Boston students are Massachusetts residents, international students and students from other states make up a significant portion of the student body. It is a member of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities and
35432-415: The time limit allocated for the pay-per-view and was given another 5 minutes of extra time due to protests from the spectators. The fight was over after 36 minutes and a draw was declared. Because of this controversial fight, the UFC would later start to introduce time limits, judges to decide draws, and authorized referees to stand up fighters and restart the bout if they have too much inactivity. In 1996,
35638-599: The time of the merger, most of Boston State College's graduate programs made the transition and tripled the graduate student enrollment at UMass Boston. By 1995, graduate students accounted for 21 percent of the university's total enrollment, and in 2011, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences was the ninth largest and was ranked as the 50th best undergraduate nursing program in the United States (and third best in New England ) by U.S. News & World Report . In 1988, Chancellor Robert A. Corrigan resigned. Besides
35844-405: The timeslot following WWE Raw . The show became an instant success, culminating with a notable season finale brawl featuring light heavyweight finalists Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar going toe-to-toe for the right to earn the six-figure contract. The live broadcast of the season finale drew a very impressive 1.9 overall rating. Dana White credits TUF 1 for saving the UFC, and claims that
36050-501: The tournament into a television franchise. In 1993, WOW Promotions sought a television partner and approached pay-per-view producers TVKO ( HBO ) and SET ( Showtime ), and Campbell McLaren and David Isaacs at Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG). Both TVKO and SET declined, but SEG—a pioneer in pay-per-view television that had produced such offbeat events as a tennis match between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova —became WOW's partner in May 1993. UFC promoters initially pitched
36256-476: The trademarked Octagon, which became the event's signature setting. Cusson remained the group's production designer through UFC 27. SEG devised the show's name as " The Ultimate Fighting Championship ". WOW Promotions and SEG produced the first event, later retroactively called UFC 1 , at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver , Colorado on November 12, 1993. Art Davie was its booker and matchmaker. It proposed to find answers for sports fans' questions such as, "Can
36462-422: The transition, a large cut in the state's higher education budget forced the board of regents to require a " shotgun wedding " merger to happen by September 1981 (although the board did allow for it to be delayed until January of the following year). Boston State College's largest programs—its teacher's college , nursing and police administration —transferred over to UMass Boston fully intact, and formed
36668-415: The university opened its new campus on the Columbia Point peninsula. In 1975, enabled by the move to Columbia Point, Chancellor Carlo L. Golino oversaw the opening of the College of Professional Studies (later renamed the College of Management), and in 1976, supervised the merger of College I and College II into a single College of Arts and Sciences. Golino resigned as chancellor in 1978, was succeeded in
36874-423: The university opened the free-standing parking garage adjacent to the Integrated Sciences Complex. In February 2019, university campus employees protested an administration decision to increase the daily parking fee from $ 6 to $ 15 to cover the costs of the garage operation and other expenses. During the 2018–2019 academic year, UMass Boston was ranked by multiple publications as being among the best universities in
37080-792: The university to purchase the building at 100 Arlington Street. Over the next three years, the university also leased the Sawyer Building on Stuart Street, the Salada Buildings on Columbus Avenue , a part of the Boston Statler Hotel for faculty and departmental office space, and the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets (which was converted into the university's library). The student newspaper, The Mass Media , published its inaugural issue on November 16, 1966, and
37286-448: The university's Bayside Expo Center property up for sale. In February 2019, the UMass System Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 99-year final lease agreement for the Bayside Expo Center with Accordia Partners for $ 192 million to $ 235 million. UMass Boston has a graduation rate of 68% and an annual retention rate of 76%. The university confers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and also operates certificate programs and
37492-432: The university's campus became "a multi-site construction zone." Other completed or current projects include: In June 2021, Chancellor Suárez-Orozco initiated the development of an updated campus master plan. In October 2018, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced a comprehensive climate change adaptation proposal to protect the Boston Harbor coastline from flooding . In October 2020, the Walsh administration released
37698-499: The university's research funding: Environmental Studies, Psycho-Social Functioning of At-Risk Populations, Education, and Health and Social Welfare. In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston's designation to a Doctoral/Research University, Intensive, and UMass Boston now offered seven doctoral programs in public policy , computer science , nursing , and education , in addition to clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology. In
37904-485: The university, saying in June 1965 that "The first aim of the University of Massachusetts at Boston must be to build a university in the ancient tradition of Western civilization ." Gagnon would be the principal architect of the university's brief attempt to create a Great Books program called the "Coordinated Freshman Year English-History Program", which was dismantled by the end of the 1960s. Freshman classes started for 1,240 undergraduate students in September 1965 at
38110-429: The virus. In January 2022, 270 scientists, physicians, professors, doctors, and healthcare workers wrote an open letter to Spotify expressing concern over "false and societally harmful assertions" on The Joe Rogan Experience and asked Spotify to "establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform." The 270 signatories took issue with Rogan "broadcasting misinformation , particularly regarding
38316-526: The virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies , prednisone , azithromycin , NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin , an antiparasitic drug that is not an effective treatment for COVID-19 . This drew controversy due to multiple people reportedly being hospitalized after self-medicating with an over-the-counter form of ivermectin designed to treat ailments in livestock, which typically has
38522-472: The virus. This view was criticized by Anthony Fauci and White House communication director Kate Bedingfield , as well as by several media outlets. Part of the objection was that there have been notable cases affecting young, healthy people. Rogan acknowledged there was "some legitimate science" behind Fauci's view and emphasized that he is not a doctor and should not be taken as "a respected source of information". On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for
38728-455: The way". Rogan opposes Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada " communist " while admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system. Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic . In March 2024, Rogan described Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip as a " genocide ". In a podcast with writer Coleman Hughes eight days later, where Hughes disputed
38934-510: The world), its University Honors Program as a separate Honors College, and its School for the Environment and launched an interdisciplinary Nantucket Semester Program. In 2014, research activity at the university had climbed to $ 60 million, and the university began work on its HarborWalk Improvements and Shoreline Stabilization project. By the fall semester of 2014, total student enrollment had grown to 16,756 with 4,056 graduate students. The number of doctoral students had increased from 230 in
39140-478: The world. Rogan was born in Newark, New Jersey , and began his career in comedy in 1988 in the Boston area. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1994, he signed an exclusive developmental deal with Disney and appeared as an actor on several television shows, including Hardball and NewsRadio . In 1997, he started working for the UFC as an interviewer and color commentator. He released his first comedy special , I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday... , in 2000 and hosted
39346-442: Was a former landfill , adjacent to the largest and poorest public housing complex in New England , and a mile from the MBTA 's Columbia station . The proposal was deeply unpopular among the faculty and students; 1,500 of them subsequently organized a rally in November 1967 on Boston Common demanding a downtown location in Copley Square . In April 1969, when the Students for a Democratic Society organized its opposition rally,
39552-418: Was a great show on paper until a horrible executive producer with a big ego was hired by Fox to run the show and he rewrote it." Around this time, Rogan began performing at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and was hired as a paid regular by owner Mitzi Shore . According to Rogan, he performed at the club for the next 13 years for free and paid for the venue's new sound system. From 1995 to 1999, Rogan starred in
39758-639: Was a recurring guest on Rogan's show. Rogan described the video compilation as a "political hit job". A number of UFC fighters, including Israel Adesanya , Terrance McKinney , Michael Chandler , Aljamain Sterling , Frankie Edgar , Darren Till , Marlon Vera , Ben Askren , and Brendan Schaub , defended Rogan. Spotify had refused to carry 42 episodes of the podcast when it acquired the exclusive rights. Spotify says it spoke to Rogan about his "history of using some racially insensitive language", and it says (in an internal memo) that Rogan selected 70 episodes which were removed on February 4, 2022, all of which pre-date
39964-438: Was appointed the university's chancellor, now Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H. Quinn , Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Kevin B. Harrington , and State Senator George Kenneally all urged the UMass Board of Trustees to accept the Columbia Point proposal, while Chancellor Broderick asked the board to delay its decision at an October 1968 meeting by one month so that he might be able to deliver
40170-407: Was appointed the university's deputy chancellor and chief operating officer. On April 5, 2017, university officials announced that Chancellor J. Keith Motley would resign at the end of the academic calendar year. UMass System President Marty Meehan stated Deputy Chancellor Mills would serve as interim chancellor "until [university] finances are stabilized and the university is positioned to attract
40376-468: Was born in Newark, New Jersey , on August 11, 1967. He had one Irish grandparent, while his three other grandparents were all of Italian descent. His parents divorced when he was five, and he has not been in contact with his father, an architect, since he was seven. He recalled, "All I remember of my dad are these brief, violent flashes of domestic violence. But I don't want to complain about my childhood. Nothing bad ever really happened to me. I don't hate
40582-418: Was completed in 1979. In 1977, McKee-Berger-Mansueto, Inc. (MBM), the company contracted to supervise the construction of the campus, came under public scrutiny after its contract with the Commonwealth was criticized in a series of newspaper articles for being abnormally favorable towards MBM, and a special legislative committee (led by Amherst College President John William Ward ) was formed to investigate
40788-408: Was downloaded 16 million times each month, making it one of the most popular free podcasts. On May 19, 2020, Rogan announced that he had signed a multiyear licensing deal with Spotify worth an estimated $ 200 million, making it one of the largest licensing agreements in the podcast business. The deal made The Joe Rogan Experience available on Spotify starting September 1, 2020, and exclusive on
40994-495: Was initially founded: UMass President John W. Lederle had insisted upon a campus inside the city limits of Boston, while Boston Mayor John F. Collins publicly asked Chancellor John W. Ryan not to consider a permanent site in Downtown Boston , as a disproportionate amount of the valuable real estate there was already owned by many colleges and other non-profit institutions exempt from the city government's property taxes . In 1954, only one new private office building had appeared on
41200-405: Was named MMA Personality of the Year four times by the World MMA Awards . In 1999, Rogan secured a three-album deal with Warner Bros. Records and began tentative plans to star in his own prime-time televised sitcom on Fox named The Joe Rogan Show . The show, co-written by Seinfeld writer Bill Masters, was to feature Rogan as "a second-string sportscaster who lands a spot as the token male on
41406-465: Was opened. Construction for the facility began on July 20, 2001, and was completed during the tenure of Chancellor Gora. It became the new entrance for the campus and was the first building constructed since the Clark Athletic Center was completed in 1979. Unlike the original Columbia Point campus buildings, which were uniformly built of brick and faced inward, the Campus Center was designed such that its glass front would look out onto Boston Harbor , and
41612-399: Was originally composed of five buildings connected by a series of skyways on the second floors of the buildings: McCormack Hall, Wheatley Hall, the Science Center, the Healey Library (which was designed by Chicago modernist architect Harry Weese ), and the Quinn Administration Building. To transport students from Columbia station , the MBTA concluded that constructing a skyway from
41818-488: Was recorded in September 2006 at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco, and contains excerpts of an improvized Q&A session with the audience that was typical of Rogan's act at the time. Rogan hosted the short-lived CBS show Game Show in My Head , which aired for eight episodes in January 2009. It was produced by Ashton Kutcher . The show involved contestants who try to convince people to perform or take part in increasingly bizarre situations for money. He agreed to host
42024-623: Was set to become the first state in the U.S. to sign off on a set of codified rules that governed MMA. Soon after, New Jersey adopted the language. As the UFC continued to work with the athletic commissions, events took place in smaller U.S. markets, and venues, such as the Lake Charles Civic Center . The markets included states that are largely rural and less known for holding professional sporting events, such as Iowa, Mississippi, Louisiana, Wyoming, and Alabama. SEG could not secure home-video releases for UFC 23 through UFC 29 . With other mixed martial arts promotions working towards U.S. sanctioning,
42230-402: Was the first time the UFC hit such a high mark since being forced "underground" in 1997. UFC 40 also garnered mainstream attention from media outlets such as ESPN and USA Today , something that was unfathomable for mixed martial arts at that point in time. Many have suggested that the success of UFC 40 and the anticipation for Ortiz vs. Shamrock saved the UFC from bankruptcy; the buyrates of
42436-545: Was the presenter in the 2010 documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule . Rogan has an interest in sensory deprivation and using an isolation tank . He has stated that his personal experiences with meditation in isolation tanks have helped him explore the nature of consciousness and improve his performance in various physical and mental activities and overall well-being. In April 2021, Rogan made contentious remarks about COVID-19 vaccines , in particular claiming that young, healthy people do not need to be vaccinated against
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